NOUN
- one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
How To Use part of speech In A Sentence
- The probability of each part of speech starting and ending a noun phrase was then determined from this data.
- If the homonyms are the same part of speech, they are distinguished by superior numbers following the part-of-speech label.
- Using demonstratives and forming sentences A demonstrative is the part of speech that you use to indicate or specify a noun that you're referring to. Arabic for Dummies
- Each headword is listed with its translation, part of speech, and pronunciation. Barron’s Spanish-English Pocket Bilingual Dictionary « Books « Literacy News
- n. - the using of one part of speech for another for a strking effect anthophagous adj. - feeding on flowers. adj. - flower-loving; feeding on flowers. anthorism Xml's Blinklist.com
- Lynch has decided to give entire entries, that is, the headword, part of speech, etymology, definitions and quotations.
- Longer idioms, like to be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, "do not readily correlate with a given grammatical part of speech"; these he terms phraseological idioms. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
- Each node carries three types of information: a syntactic function, a lexeme and a set of morphosyntactic features introduced by a part of speech category.
- As the interjection is the least important part of speech in the English language, it will require but little attention. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
- In all this talk about entries, it must be remembered that the (accepted) practice in counting dictionary entries in the U.S. (and becoming the standard in the U.K. as well) is to count not only headwords, or main entries, but inflected forms, variants, changes in part of speech, run-on words (like cunningly and cunningness under cunning), and list words (like reaccuse and reacquire), which need no definition. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1