Parts of Speech and Word classes

What are parts of speech?

Newer concept of word classes, which divides words into two categories, form class words and structure class words.

Traditional grammar emphasis on “Doctrine of Mechanical Correctness.”

Here were the different parts of the speech for a given sentence.

It was easy to get the articles (the words), interjection, which is an exclamation, noun, pronoun and verb. adverb describes a verb and was easy to get too. adjective describes a noun and was alright.

So, the fearful parts were, preposition, conjunction.

Conjunction are joiner words, the term commonly used in programming languages and libraries. Preposition are the words that positions the nouns. They could be called as positionals, it comes before the actual positional word, so called preposition.

Knowing the parts of speech

• a Noun is a naming word.

• a Pronoun is a noun substitute.

• a Verb is a doing or being word.

• an Adjective describes nouns and pronouns.

• an Adverb describes adjectives, verbs and other adverbs.

• An Article specifies the definitiveness (the) or indefiniteness of a noun.

• A conjunction is a joining word.

• A preposition is a word that positions.

• an Interjection conveys emotion or sentiment.