major form class

Noun
  1. Any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar (synset 106328665)
    is a 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
    subtypes:
    • 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

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