Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.

Peace,

David Brown
Long Beach, CA
USA

--- On Fri 07/21, Peter Adams < [log in to unmask] > wrote:

From: Peter Adams [mailto: [log in to unmask]]
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:18:14 EDT
Subject: Parts of Speech

Does anyone know why we call them "parts of speech" . . . whether there are eight or ten.

Peter Adams
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