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English words are traditionally classified into eight parts of speech: noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. However, many English words can belong to multiple parts of speech. English words are also generally not marked for part of speech through inflection like other European languages. So the part of speech is often based on how the word is used in a sentence rather than its form alone.
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This document provides an introduction to the structure of the English language. It discusses analyzing language at various levels, including words, meanings, syntax, morphology, sounds, and written forms. Some key points:
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- 1. English words have been classified into eight or nine parts of speech (and this scheme, or slight expansions of it, is still followed in most dictionaries): Noun a word or lexical item denoting any abstract or concrete entity; a person (police officer, Michael), place (coastline, London), thing (necktie, television), idea (happiness), or quality (bravery) Pronoun a substitute for a noun or noun phrase (them, he) Adjective a modifier of a noun or pronoun (big, brave) Verb a word denoting an action (walk), occurrence (happen), or state of being (be) Adverb a modifier of an adjective, verb, or other adverb (very, quite) Preposition a word that relates a noun to another word or phrase in the sentence and aids in syntactic context (in, of) Conjunction a syntactic connector; links words, phrases, or clauses (and, but) Interjection an emotional greeting or exclamation (Hurrah, Alas) Article a grammatical marker of definiteness (the) or indefiniteness (a, an). Not always listed among the parts of speech. Sometimes determiner (a broader class) is used instead. Generally, the articles are not considered a separate part of speech, but are classified as adjectives. They modify nouns by limiting, in the same manner as a number ("the pen," "a pen,""one pen"). English words are not generally marked as belonging to one part of speech or another; this contrasts with many other European languages, which use inflection more extensively, meaning that a given word form can often be identified as belonging to a particular part of speech and having certain additional grammatical properties. In English, most words are uninflected, while the inflective endings that exist are mostly ambiguous: - ed may mark a verbal past tense, a participle or a fully adjectival form; -s may mark a plural noun or a present-tense verb form; -ing may mark a participle, gerund, or pure adjective or noun. Although -ly is a frequent adverb marker, some adverbs (e.g. tomorrow, fast, very) do
- 2. not have that ending, while some words with that ending (e.g. friendly, ugly) are not adverbs. Many English words can belong to more than one part of speech. Words like neigh, break, outlaw, laser, microwave, and telephone might all be either verbs or nouns. In certain circumstances, even words with primarily grammatical functions can be used as verbs or nouns, as in, "We must look to the hows and not just the whys." The process whereby a word comes to be used as a different part of speech is called conversion or zero derivation.