Questions tagged [parts-of-speech]
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What part of speech is "down" in "Put your pencils down"?
I need to know what down in this specific sentence means. I don't know if it is a preposition or an adverb.
halsjcb
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What is the grammatical function of 'Celsius' in "ten degrees Celsius"?
In this sentence:
Iron melts at around 770 degrees Celsius, 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is the grammatical function of the words 'Celsius' and 'Fahrenheit' ?
Færd
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Correct usage of "in that"
I've heard in that used as a synonym for because, but I don't think that this is semantically correct in all cases.
That car is nice, in that it is blue.
This sentence generally makes sense to me, but it also sounds funny. But I don't know enough…
Travis Webb
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Is "times" really a plural noun?
In the question What part of speech are "plus", "times", and "minus", we discover that plus is a preposition, and are left to assume that so is times, in phrases such as "five times six".
That seems to make sense to me.
However, I checked Oxford…
Matt E. Эллен
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"Cry foul" - is foul a noun?
Is the the word "foul" in the saying "cry foul" a noun, an adjective or an adverb?
I had a disagreement with my teacher, where I think it's a noun.
As in screaming "Foul!", saying that the action is a foul. Now that I think of it, screaming "Foul!"…
Varis
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Adverbial form of "timely"
The following sentence seems incorrect to me, because the adjective timely is being used as an adverb:
Payments not received timely will be returned and additional interest
will be due.
That said, does timely even have an adverbial form?…
Eric Nelson
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Part of speech for "please" followed by a verb
I know that "please" can be many different parts of speech; interjection, an adverb, or a verb, depending on how it's used. I'm looking specifically to find out what part of speech "please" is when followed by a verb:
Please send me your…
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More on 'who should she see': what part of speech is 'should' in this phrase?
Prompted by What does 'should' mean in this sentence?, instead of asking what it means, I'm interested in what part of speech it is.
The sentence is:
She walked through the forest, and who should she see, but the Big Bad Wolf
Should is being used…
cindi
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"Opportunities of" vs "opportunities for;" which one is correct and why?
The sentence is "I was privileged with ample opportunities of one on one interactions with my writing teachers."
Would it be more appropriate to use "for" or "of" in this situation? What dictates that?
Thanks
Jidas
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What part of speech is "chiropractic"?
"Chiropractic" sounds like an adjective because of the "ic", but the title "Doctor of Chiropractic" seems like a noun.
Am I just confused?
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What part of speech is the word "another"?
In this sentence
He stayed another five years.
the word another isn't a determiner (because five is a determiner), and isn't a pronoun.
So what part of speech is it? Wiktionary says that another can only be a determiner and a pronoun.
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What part of the sentence is "you" in "telling you who that is"?
The object is "who that is", right? And the verb is "telling", but what is "you"?
Further sentences:
Did they give 'him' a reward?
Will you be able to find 'them' a home?
I have given 'her' a lot of money, and she has shown 'me' nothing in…
Wolfpack'08
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"Equals" - a verb or not?
I was checking out the usage of the word "equal" as a verb on the Merriam-Webster website. Under the "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb" section, I stumbled upon this peculiar quotation:
"That map also showed that the regions of Tampa Bay, Daytona…
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What part of speech is 'soaking' in 'soaking wet'?
In the sentence, "I am soaking wet", 'I' is the noun, 'am' is the verb, 'wet' is the adjective, and 'soaking' describes the extent of 'wet'. So would 'soaking' be classified as a "helping adjective", so to speak? Or just an adjective? Or is there a…
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What part of speech is the phrase "Notwithstanding the foregoing?"
In a contract document I'm reading, I found the following sentence:
Notwithstanding the foregoing, your employment is also subject to the following terms:
My question concerns the phrase, "notwithstanding the foregoing." I understanding the…
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