Question:
this might seem like a ridiculous question, but can anyne list for me the 9
(?) parts of speech?
Answer:
When I was a student at University, we had a subject called "Theoretical
Grammar." In this subject we studied different (very often divergent)
viewpoints of various grammarians on English grammar. But we also had
classes of practical grammar; here we had one textbook, in which we
were taught the following:
We distinguish between notional and structural parts of speech. The
notional parts of speech perform certain functions in the sentence: those
of subject, predicate, attribute, object, or adverbial modifier.
The notional parts of speech are: noun, adjective, pronoun, numeral, verb,
adverb, words of the category of state, modal words, interjection.
The structural parts of speech either express relations between words
or sentences or emphasize the meaning of words or sentences. They
do not perform any independent function in the sentence. Here belong:
preposition, conjunction, particle, article.
I know that most present-day grammar books do not use this
classification, but I think that it is logical and helps to explain a lot of
things.
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