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parts of speech

parts of speech is the plural of part of speech.

Meaning of part of speech

Noun

part of speech (plural parts of speech)

  1. A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
    • PARTS OF SPEECH. There are ten parts of speech, viz. Article, Substantive or Noun, Adjective, Numeral, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection.1828, Charles Follen, A Practical Grammar of the German Language, Boston, page 9
    Synonyms:
    lexical category, lexical class, syntactic category, word class

Questions about parts of speech

What is parts of speech the plural of?
Parts of speech is the plural of part of speech.

Words near parts of speech in the dictionary

  1. parts brass rags
  2. parts company
  3. parts interpreter
  4. parts interpreters
  5. Parts of Holland
  6. parts of speech
  7. parts off
  8. parts out
  9. parts unknown
  10. parts ways
  11. parts with

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