Summary:
Examines the grammatical categories of the English language, including nouns, verbs and adjectives. Describes the eight classes or parts of speech and provides examples of each. Compares the English language to the Latin grammar system.
The words of every language are divided into several word classes, or parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs and adjectives etc. The words of a given class exhibit two or more forms in somewhat different grammatical circumstances. These forms are not interchangeable and each can be used only in a given grammatical situation. This variation in form is required by the existence of a grammatical category applying to that class of words. Thus a grammatical category is "a linguistic category which has the effect of modifying the forms of some class of words in a language" (Trask). For example, English nouns have the grammatical category of number. Thus the singular 'dog' and the plural 'dogs' exist but are not interchangeable in a sentence. A noun can be used.....
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