PART OF SPEECH Definition & Meaning

part of speech

[ pahrt uhv speech ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Grammar.

any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

part of speech

noun

a class of words sharing important syntactic or semantic features; a group of words in a language that may occur in similar positions or fulfil similar functions in a sentence. The chief parts of speech in English are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection POS

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of part of speech¹

First recorded in 1500–10

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Example Sentences

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But these terms had not morphed into abstract symbols, nor did they spread to every other part of speech.

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He asked for all the word’s information — its definition, part of speech, orthography, use in a sentence — but he didn’t need it, evidenced by a slight smile as he spoke.

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Before panelists can debate the words picked for the bee, they need to hear each word and its language of origin, part of speech, definition and exemplary sentence read aloud.

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What is the mechanism for, say, changing one part of speech into another?

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What other part of speech than a noun is "rupture"? Ans.

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