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| Nov 29, 2022 at 16:54 | comment | added | John Lawler | But your answer is right, which is important. Parts of speech is an old term that only applies well to highly-inflected languages like Latin, where every word is color-coded with inflections to tell you how it fits together with the other words. In uninflected languages like English or Mandarin, practically any word can be used as practically any part of speech. In particular, the difference between adverb and adjective is especially hard to spot. Probly adverbs are dying out as a POS in English, the way "participle" did in the original 8 (which didn't include adjectives). | |
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| Sep 23, 2022 at 10:37 | history | edited | Meera Balaganesan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2022 at 9:29 | comment | added | KillingTime | This seems to disagree with the accepted answer that says "dark cannot ever be an adverb". So, perhaps, you might like to add some supporting sources for your assertion. | |
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| S Sep 23, 2022 at 9:04 | history | answered | Meera Balaganesan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |