word class

Synonyms:

form class, part of speech

Types:

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major form class

any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar

noun

the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

verb

the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence

adjective

the word class that qualifies nouns

adverb

the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses

Type of:

grammatical category, syntactic category

(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties