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Part of speech

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In grammar, this is the role that a word (or sometimes a phrase) plays in a sentence.

Common ways of delimiting words by function include:

In Transformational-Generative Grammar parts of speech are known as Lexical categories.

See syntax, syntactic categories and grammar


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