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Which part of speech is inflected for case and signifies a concrete or abstract entity?
Which part of speech is inflected for case and signifies a concrete or abstract entity?
- Verb
- Adjective
- Noun (correct)
- Adverb
Which part of speech is inflected for tense, person, and number, signifying an activity or process?
Which part of speech is inflected for tense, person, and number, signifying an activity or process?
- Preposition
- Adjective
- Noun
- Verb (correct)
Which part of speech is a declinable part, taken to include the definite article and the basic relative pronoun?
Which part of speech is a declinable part, taken to include the definite article and the basic relative pronoun?
- Adverb
- Pronoun
- Article (correct)
- Noun
Which part of speech is substitutable for a noun and marked for a person?
Which part of speech is substitutable for a noun and marked for a person?
Which part of speech is placed before other words in composition and in syntax?
Which part of speech is placed before other words in composition and in syntax?
Adverbs are a common part of speech in English.
Adverbs are a common part of speech in English.
Nouns do not undergo inflection for similar properties.
Nouns do not undergo inflection for similar properties.
A pronoun is substitutable for a noun and marked for a person.
A pronoun is substitutable for a noun and marked for a person.
Modern linguistic classifications do not make more precise distinctions than the traditional scheme.
Modern linguistic classifications do not make more precise distinctions than the traditional scheme.
The term 'lexical category' refers only to a particular type of syntactic.
The term 'lexical category' refers only to a particular type of syntactic.
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Parts of Speech
- A part of speech is a category of words that share similar grammatical properties.
- Words in the same part of speech display similar syntactic behavior, playing similar roles in sentence structures.
- They often exhibit similar morphological behavior, undergoing inflection for similar properties.
- They also often display similar semantic behavior.
Common Parts of Speech
- Noun
- Verb
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Pronoun
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- Numeral
- Article
- Determiner
Alternative Terms
- Word class
- Lexical class
- Lexical category
- Note: Some authors restrict the term lexical category to refer to a particular type of syntactic category.
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