![]() For example, the American Heritage Dictionary (4 th edition, p. Every literate person needs at least a minimal understanding of parts of speech in order to be able to use such commonplace items as dictionaries and thesauruses, which classify words according to their parts (and sub-parts) of speech. In this book we distinguish nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs (the major parts of speech), and pronouns, wh-words, articles, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, intensifiers, conjunctions, and particles (the minor parts of speech). Though many writers on language refer to " the eight parts of speech " (e.g., Weaver 1996: 254), the actual number of parts of speech we need to recognize in a language is determined by how fine-grained our analysis of the language is-the more fine-grained, the greater the number of parts of speech that will be distinguished. These groups are called " parts of speech, " and we examine them in this chapter and the next. ![]() I n t ro d u c t i o n In every language we find groups of words that share grammatical characteristics. ![]()
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