Definition, Meaning & Synonyms
part-of-speech
Noun
/ˈpɑrt əv spiːʧ/
Definition
A category of words that have similar grammatical properties.
Examples
- Nouns represent people, places, or things, such as ‘book’ or ‘city’.
- Verbs denote actions or states of being, like ‘run’ or ‘is’.
- Adjectives describe nouns, as in ‘beautiful’ or ‘tall’.
- Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, e.g., ‘quickly’ or ‘very’.
- Prepositions show relationships between elements in a sentence, such as ‘in’, ‘on’, or ‘at’.
Meaning
Part of speech refers to the role that a word plays in a sentence, indicating how it functions with other words to convey meaning.
Synonyms
- Word class
- Lexical category
- Grammatical category
- Syntactic category
