Survey of English Grammar Wiki: Week 1

Parts of Speech

Every English word belongs to a part of speech like noun, verb, or adjective, and many words belong to more than one (for instance, the word cook can be a noun or a verb). You can think of a part of speech as a set of words that share some grammatical property, e.g. nouns often refer to objects and can be singular or plural, verbs often refer to event and can appear with different tense affixes, etc. /*

Part of Speech	Meaning	Inflection	Function	Subclasses
Nouns	name persons, things, animals, places or abstract notions	inflect for number book or books) inflect for case teacher or teacher's	head of NP	common nouns, proper nouns, pronouns	pronouns are treated as a subclass of nouns
Verbs	express actions, states, events		head of VP

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Exercises on parts of speech

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