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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When is “here” an adverb or a noun?
In the sentence "I hope you are all paying attention, here is a sentence I made earlier", is here an adverb or a noun? I think it is a noun, but if I substitute a noun or a pronoun for here, the ...
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What part of speech is “that” in each of the following sentences that mean the same?
It was all planned well before today that I can be sure about.
Here I believe that that is subordinating conjunction.
It was all planned well before today; I can be sure about that.
Here I ...
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What are the possible part of speech combinations for compound nouns?
I am currently working through allowable part of speech combinations for the first two words of an English sentence. It seems troubling to me to allow the first two words of a sentence to both be ...
