Do you know what the parts of speech are? This article will provide you with all of the information you need on parts of speech, including its definition, usage, example sentences, and more!
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According to Your Dictionary, there are nine different parts of speech in English grammar. First there are adjectives, which modify or describe a noun, attributing a quality or an attribute to the noun that is being modified. Next there are adverbs. These are kind of like adjectives, but instead of modifying a noun, they modify or describe a verb, adjective, or another adverb or word group. These usually provide information relating to time, place, manner, cause, degree, or circumstance. Next, conjunctions are used to coordinate and connect words, phrases, and clauses to make sense as a cohesive thought, sentence, or paragraph. Interjections or exclamations are abrupt words used to show feelings and emotional effect. Nouns are a person, place, thing, idea, or quality, and can be the subject, direct object, or indirect object of a sentence. Verbs express action or a state of being, and articles are used to modify a noun. Prepositions indicate spatial relationships between nouns and pronouns. Pronouns take the place of nouns, and include the below:
Parts of speech can be specified, such as subordinating or subordinate conjunctions, reflexive pronouns, relative pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, different types of nouns like a concrete noun or abstract noun, correlative conjunctions, indefinite pronoun, possessive nouns, helping verb, action verb, other types of conjunctions, a noun in the plural form, a type of article, possessive adjectives, new nouns, an indefinite article, open classes, closed classes, a verb phrase, and more parts of the sentence.
Many different languages also contain words that mean parts of speech. You may notice that some of these translations of parts of speech look and sound similar to one another. These are called cognates, which are words and phrases in different languages that likely have the same root or language of origin, causing them to sound the same. The below list of translations of parts of speech is provided by Word Sense.
Slovene: besedna vrsta (fem.)
Malay: golongan kata
Esperanto: parolparto
Armenian: խոսքի մաս
Turkish: sözcük türü
Tajik: ҳиссаҳои нутқ
Latin: pars ōrātiōnis (fem.)
Mandarin: 詞類, 词类 (cílèi), 詞性, 词性 (cíxìng)
Indonesian: kelas kata
Russian: часть ре́чи (fem.)
Norwegian: ordklasse
Ancient: μέρος τοῦ λόγου (neut.)
French: classe lexicale (fem.), partie du discours (fem.), classe grammaticale (fem.)
Persian: ادات سخن (adât-e soxan), نوع کلمه (now’-e kalame)
Japanese: 品詞 (ひんし, hinshi)
Swedish: ordklass (common)
Ukrainian: части́на мови (fem.)
Czech: slovní druh (masc.)
Kazakh: сөз табы
Estonian: sõnaliik
Portuguese: classe gramatical (fem.)
Tagalog: bahagi ng pananalita
Romanian: parte de vorbire (fem.)
Hebrew: חֵלֶק דיבור
Cyrillic: врста речи (fem.)
Italian: parte del discorso (fem.)
Belarusian: часці́на мо́вы (fem.)
Roman: vrsta riječi (fem.), vrsta reči (fem.)
Danish: ordklasse (common)
Hindi: शब्द भेद
Spanish: parte de la oración (fem.), parte de oración (fem.), categoría gramatical (fem.), parte del habla (fem.)
Korean: 품사
Latvian: vārdšķira (fem.)
Telugu: భాషాభాగము
Bulgarian: част на ре́чта (fem.)
Dutch: woordsoort (fem.)
Burmese: ဝါစင်္ဂ
Macedonian: зборовна група (fem.)
Yiddish: ווערטערקלאַס (masc.)
Vietnamese: từ loại
Polish: część mowy (fem.)
Lithuanian: kalbos dalis (fem.)
Icelandic: orðflokkur (masc.)
Mongolian: үгсийн аймаг
Tatar: сүз төркеме
Azeri: nitq hissəsi
Yakut: саҥа чааһа
Rusyn: часть ре́чі (fem.)
Lao: ວະຈີວິພາກ, ໂສດ
Arabic: جُزْء الْكَلَام (masc.)
Hungarian: szófaj
Middle High German: teil der red
Georgian: მეტყველების ნაწილი
What are other literary techniques and devices?
There are many different literary and grammatical techniques and devices that you might see when you are reading prose or poetry. It is important to recognize these terms because they are always used for some purpose. Knowing these devices can help readers understand the author’s deeper meaning and why they are using such a device. Take a look at the below list of grammatical devices from OED and see how many you know! Then try researching ones that are unfamiliar to you.
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November 10, 2021
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