NOUN | communication | major form class | any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar |
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Meaning | Any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar. | |
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Narrower | adjective | The word class that qualifies nouns |
adverb | The word class that qualifies verbs or clauses | |
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 | |
Broader | part of speech, form class, word class | One of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context |
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