Part-of-speech synonyms
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noun (related)
The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive.
pronoun (related)
(Gram.) Any of a small class of relationship or signal words that assume the functions of nouns within clauses or phrases while referring to other locutions within the sentence or in other sentences: I, you, them, it, ours, who, which, myself, anybody, etc. are pronouns
The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.
grammatical form
preposition (related)
In some languages, a relation or function word, as English in, by, for, with, to, etc., that connects a lexical word, usually a noun or pronoun, or a syntactic construction, to another element of the sentence, as to a verb (Ex.: he went to the store), to a noun (Ex.: the sound of loud music), or to an adjective (Ex.: good for her)
verb (related)
A phrase or other construction used as a verb.
grammar (related)
A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
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function-word
(Linguistics) A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, such as prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions.
adjective (related)
The definition of an adjective is a part of speech that is used to describe a noun.
word (related)
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adverb (related)
Any of a class of words used generally to modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause, by expressing time, place, manner, degree, cause, etc.: English adverbs often end in -ly (Ex.: fast, carefully, then)
conjunction (related)
(Grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related. Example: Bread, butter and cheese.
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grapheme (related)
word-form (related)
wordclass (related)
tagger (related)
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