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A '''part of speech''' is a grammatical category of words in a language.  In [[English]], the eight parts of speech are the [[noun]], the [[verb]], the [[adjective]], the [[adverb]], the [[pronoun]], the [[preposition]], the [[conjunction]], and the [[interjection]].  Other languages have more or fewer parts of speech.

A '''part of speech''' is a grammatical category of words in a language.  In [[English]], the eight parts of speech are the [[noun]], the [[verb]], the [[adjective]], the [[adverb]], the [[pronoun]], the [[preposition]], the [[conjunction]], and the [[interjection]].  Other languages have more or fewer parts of speech. For example, in [[Mandarin Chinese]], the two parts of speech are content words or full words, having concrete meanings; and function words or empty words, indicating grammatical relationships.<ref>[http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rsimmon/chingram/img9.html Parts of speech in Chinese]</ref>

 

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