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Exam 22.12
Exam 22.12
Exam 22.12
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9. Classification of words into parts of speech. Different approaches to this problem. Notional,
functional and form words.
There are eight parts of speech in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb,
preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The part of speech indicates how the word functions in
meaning as well as grammatically within the sentence
The term "parts of speech" was introduced in the grammatical teaching of Ancient Greece when
language and speech were not differentiated and there was no concept of sentence yet.
The semantic criterion: the generalised meaning of the words belonging to a given part of speech, i.e
the categorial meaning of the part of speech.
The formal criterion: the specific inflexional and derivational features of the words belonging to a
given part of speech.
The functional criterion: the syntactic role of words in the sentence typical of a given part of speech.
Parts of speech may be divided into notional (fully lexical, self-dependent functions in the sentence):
Noun, Adjective, Numeral, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb; and functional (incomplete nominative meaning,
non-self-dependent functions in the sentence):Article, Preposition, Conjunction, Particle, Modal Word,
Interjection.
6. Then by some accident of association there occurred to him that scene when Emma has told
him of his mother’s death.
A subordinate clause also consists of a subject Emma and a predicate has told
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