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parts of speech

  1. Classifications of words according to their relations to each other and to the things they represent. Different parts of speech name actions, name the performers of actions, describe the performers or actions, and so on. The common parts of speech are adjectives , adverbs , articles , conjunctions , interjections , nouns , prepositions , pronouns , and verbs .


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Sometimes old-fashioned in her syntax, using phrases like “set about” and “I suppose,” Schulz likes to turn parts of speech over and examine them, like stones.

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“She means vampire, not seaweed, but it doesn’t matter. It’s too warm to be particular about one’s parts of speech,” murmured Jo.

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A. There are times when she uses a lot of different parts of speech in a phrase together — and that’s really impressive to me.

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Designed by speech-language pathologists and vocabulary design specialists at Talk to Me Technologies, which is the company that sells the board, the different parts of speech are categorized in sections.

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There are also tools like Grammarly that will highlight and explain various parts of speech and language rules, which some people find really helpful.

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