Questions tagged [parts-of-speech]
For questions relating to identifying the parts of speech, which include: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, determiners, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
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Difference between a determiner and a pronoun?
What I learnt -
Can someone please clarify if the words in bold are determiners or pronouns?
Each of my teachers has long hair.
Both of my close friends live in Scotland.
Either of these plans sounds ...
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Confusing Components in a Sentence: adverbial modifier OR object in a prepositional phrase
I'm trying to understand the grammatical role of a phrase in a sentence. The sentence in question is:
"And all without the government having to spend any money up-front, which is amazing."
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A strange usage of 'of'
The word “language-game” is used here to emphasize the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life.
The right understanding of the construction 'the speaking of ...
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I can't understand the last line. What does the speaker want to say?
Graphic designers use a variety of design element to achieve artistic or decorative effects in print or electronic mediums to help determine the message, and the design should convey.
Shouldn't it be:
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Is "in addition" a sentence connector or a conjunction
"The weather here is terrible. In spite of heavy rain, we've had gale force winds.
Until the bad weather, we're doing a lot of walking.Yesterday was typical.
When we got up it was wet — of course ...
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"Relative pronoun and Conjunction"
What are the basic difference between Relative pronoun and conjunction
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Is "poor" in "he was born poor" and adverb or an adjective?
Is "poor" in "he was born poor" an adverb or an adjective?
And could the answer be related to the answer to this question?
"I was born in 1961" is ‘born’ past participle ...
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What part of speech is "her" and "drive" in "I watched her drive."?
Would "her" be the direct object of the transitive verb, "watched"? Or would the verb phrase itself act as the direct object?
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Meaning of 'As opposition to'
What's the meaning of 'as opposition to' and what part of speech is 'as' in these following sentences ?
Zelenskyy visits Washington as opposition to Ukraine aid grows.
Some homeowners (were) ...
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What do you call noun phrases used as adverbs?
I never met him in person
These countries were at war in the 19th century
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this boiler provides hot water on demand
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Gerund POS classification [duplicate]
Following up on my previous question I am trying to find the proper parts of speech (POS) Tag for "Hiking interest rates" and "Cutting interest rates" in the context of the ...
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What part of speech is an “-ing” form at the very beginning of a sentence?
I have been reading this paper and the following sentence is quite confusing to me:
Hiking interest rates to get inflation under control when unemployment
is rising could push unemployment even ...
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"Born"— Adjective or Verb in this context?
Her brother was born blind.
In this context,"Born" is an Adjective or verb?
Webster defines it as "Adjective" while OALD defines it as "Verb".
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What is the part of speech?
In the sentence 'the boy is ten years old,'
I can't understand why years is a noun. I can see ten years old as modifying boy, so it's an adjective.
Individually, ten modifies years and years modifies ...
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Why is it a noun phrase and not an adjective phrase? or is it both?
In the sentences "The boy is ten years old" and "the boy is happy".
"Ten years old" is a noun phrase, and "happy" is an adjective? why isn't Ten years old an ...
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