If I am not mistaken, there is no correct number that has ever been established empirically.  The closest that would come to that would be ten in Quirk and Greenbaum.  The list below has only 9 and is not the Quirk and Greenbaum set.  
>
>It may be that "eight is the number most generally cited" for parts
>of speech, but empirically this is not correct. English has TEN parts
>of speech, if you take a dictionary and categorize the words:
>
>
>1. Article
>2. Noun
>3. Pronoun
>4. Adjective
>5. Numeral
>
>5. Verb
>6. Adverb
>
>7. Preposition
>8. Conjunction
>9. Interjection
>
>
>Eduard
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Phil Bralich wrote...
>
>>I only use the number eight as that is the most common in the
>literature.  Quirk and Greenbaum has ten; there are other
>variations.  Eight is the number most generally sited.  
>>
>>Phil Bralich
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: DD Farms <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Sent: Jul 26, 2006 5:42 PM
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: Re: Grammar Terms Definitions
>>>
>>>At 03:34 PM 7/26/2006, Phil Bralich wrote:
>>>>If you think that there is room for ATEG to actually change a term
>>>>like that you are likely to be in for a surprise.  Parts of Speech
>>>>is not an error.  It is not meant to cover phrases and clause and
>>>>sentence types nor should you have a more precise term for all of
>>>>them other than grammar terminology.  What you always have and
>>>>cannot realistically change are the parts of speech, the sentence
>>>>roles and sentence types.
>>>
>>>DD: For this late joiner, retired Latin teacher, please elucidate.
>I
>>>count 9 parts of speech, the usual 8 in Latin plus the article.
>>>{Noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, verb, interjection, conjunction,
>>>preposition + article} The roles I think follow such things as
>>>Subject (nominative), Objects (Sometimes accusative, dative or
>>>occasionally something else.), verbal, modifiers, link words, but I
>>>am not all that sure of the official paradigm for the rest of the
>>>roles. Sentence types seem to me to be interrogative, declarative,
>>>imperative, then I am lost. { Simple, Compound, Complex?} A little
>>>help on this would be appreciated.
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