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Part of speech

A part of speech is the grammatical or functional classification of words in a given language. In the English language, there are eight parts of speech: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. A part of speech is sometimes called word class, lexical class, or lexical category.

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