I'm guessing, because I never asked my students, but I think the word "classes" would confuse them. They might either think of a class they go to or economic classes. How about word groups or word types? Jan On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Eduard C. Hanganu wrote: > Phil, > > I would appreciate if you explained why viewing *parts of speech* as > innacurate (because it restricts the definition to utterances)and > considering the term *word classes* (because this is just what > grammars do - classsify words into morphological classes) would be > consideredd *poor thinking.* What evidence supports your position? > > Eduard > > > > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Phil Bralich wrote... > > >Highly doubtful. Parts of Speech as the term for the categories of > isoated= > > words is just not a problem. Viewing it as inaccurate is just > poor think= > >ing and will be viewed as such by others. If you write the > arguments given= > > early you will only mark the group as one that is dominated by poor > thinki= > >ng. You will not affect a change. =20 > > > >Phil Bralich > > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html > and select "Join or leave the list" > > Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/