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
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>From: DD Farms <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jul 26, 2006 5:42 PM
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>Subject: Re: Grammar Terms Definitions
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>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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