Linguistic categories explaining how words are used. Examples are the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
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Is “of ” necessary in “all of ”?
Listen to all your fans
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Listen to all of your fans
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Name all the states
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Name all of the states
What part of language is of in these examples? Is it necessary or ...
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What is the lexical class of the word 'worth' when used in a sentence like “Is this apple worth $3?”
The question "Not worth the paper it's printed on" - wrong meaning? got me thinking about what part of speech, or lexical class, the word 'worth' takes?
A comment in "Is it worth ...
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Is “so” a pronoun?
Reminded by What is the grammatical function of so in this sentence, something that has always bothered me is that the word "so" can be used as a pronoun:
It looks like rain
Responding with:
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What part of speech are non-human “interjections” like “oink” and “bang”?
As a spin-off from this comment:
If a human exclaims something like "ouch!", I believe it's considered an interjection.
But if a pig exclaims "oink!", what is the part of speech?
And if a bell goes ...
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Grammar of “married” in “getting married”
What is the grammar of the word married in this sentence?
They are getting married in April.
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Is it true that a word ending in -y is more likely to be an adjective than a noun?
Claim: a word ending in -y is most likely not a noun but an adjective.
Don't have my tagged corpus handy to check. Anyone have the stats on Parts-Of-Speech of words ending in y and assuming they ...
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What part of speech is “worth”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the lexical class of the word 'worth' when used in a sentence like “Is this apple worth $3?”
In a sentence like the following:
The ...
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What word can fulfill the most parts of speech?
I know there are several parts of speech:
Noun
Verb
Pronoun
Adjective
Adverb
Preposition
Conjunction
Interjection
There might be others as well. Sometimes a word, depending on how it is used, can ...
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What part of speech does “here” have in “I am here”?
What part of speech does here have in the following sentence?
I am here.
I say that in that sentence, here must be an adverb because:
It modifies the verb am by describing where I am.
Am is a ...
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Is “architect” a verb and a noun?
I hear the word architect used as a verb in the technical field and now more often in other industries and groups, for example:
We need to architect a better solution to the problem.
I am ...
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Grammar of 'over' in 'The accident was already over when we arrived' [closed]
What is the grammar of the word 'over' in the example:'The accident was already over when we arrived'
I know it means finished and I think it's an adjective but didn't find the same meaning in the ...
