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In grammar, a part of speech is defined as the role that a word (or sometimes a phrase) plays in a sentence. In transformational-generative grammar, parts of speech are known as lexical categories.
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In English, words are not inherently one part of speech or another. Many verbs and nouns are spelled identically, for instance, denoting the action and the name of the action, respectively:
Not all adverbs end in -ly and not all words ending in -ly are adverbs.
Even words with primarily grammatical functions can be used as verbs or nouns, as:
Common ways of delimiting words by function include:
In Japanese language, aside from some exceptions, the part of speech is defined with called case-maker[?] such as な na, に ni. For example, take a noun, 親切 (Shinsetsu kindness). This word can have either an adjective or adverb form:
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