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major form class

DEFINITIONS OF: major form class

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n any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar

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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
auxiliary verb
a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with
infinitive
the uninflected form of the verb
participial, participle
a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
phrasal verb
an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit
transitive, transitive verb, transitive verb form
a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
intransitive, intransitive verb, intransitive verb form
a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object
Type of:
form class, part of speech, word class
one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
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