Writers and writing teachers need to know about parts of speech in order to be able to use and teach about style manuals and school grammars. It also distinguishes transitive, intransitive, and auxiliary verbs. xxxi) distinguishes adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, definite articles, indefinite articles, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs.
For example, the American Heritage Dictionary (4 th edition, p. Every literate person needs at least a minimal understanding of parts of speech in order to be able to use such commonplace items as dictionaries and thesauruses, which classify words according to their parts (and sub-parts) of speech. In this book we distinguish nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs (the major parts of speech), and pronouns, wh-words, articles, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, intensifiers, conjunctions, and particles (the minor parts of speech). Though many writers on language refer to " the eight parts of speech " (e.g., Weaver 1996: 254), the actual number of parts of speech we need to recognize in a language is determined by how fine-grained our analysis of the language is-the more fine-grained, the greater the number of parts of speech that will be distinguished. These groups are called " parts of speech, " and we examine them in this chapter and the next. I n t ro d u c t i o n In every language we find groups of words that share grammatical characteristics.
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