Friday, October 24, 2014
FUN WITH CLASSIFICATIONS OF WORDS
FUN WITH CLASSIFICATIONS OF WORDS
SEE Lexical category from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts_of_speech
The classification of words into lexical categories is found from the earliest moments in the history of linguistics. Plato wrote in the Cratylus dialog that "... sentences are, I conceive, a combination of verbs and nouns. Another class, "conjunctions" (covering conjunctions, pronouns, and the article), was later added by Aristotle. Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. Many words can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in another.
The syntactic role of the verb is to serve as an action word, an occurrence word (decompose, glitter), or a state of being (exist, stand). (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb)
The syntactic role of the adjective is to modify a noun or pronoun. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective)
SEE Lexical category from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts_of_speech
The classification of words into lexical categories is found from the earliest moments in the history of linguistics. Plato wrote in the Cratylus dialog that "... sentences are, I conceive, a combination of verbs and nouns. Another class, "conjunctions" (covering conjunctions, pronouns, and the article), was later added by Aristotle. Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. Many words can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in another.
The syntactic role of the verb is to serve as an action word, an occurrence word (decompose, glitter), or a state of being (exist, stand). (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb)
The syntactic role of the adjective is to modify a noun or pronoun. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective)
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