GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY
GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY. In LINGUISTICS, a class of units such as noun, verb, prepositional phrase, finite clause and features such as case, countability, gender, number. These may in turn be subcategorized into kinds of noun, case, etc. Since nouns may be subclassified in various ways that do not coincide, they are said to be cross-classified in such pairs as countable/uncountable, common/proper, animate/inanimate. Grammatical units such as subject and object, which refer to functional relationships between the parts of a sentence or clause, are often termed functional categories. See PART OF SPEECH.
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Category , category •beery, bleary, cheery, dearie, dreary, Dun Laoghaire, eerie, eyrie (US aerie), Kashmiri, leery, peri, praemunire, query, smeary, teary, the… Dichotomy , dichotomy •fumy, gloomy, plumy, rheumy, roomie, roomy, spumy •excuse-me • mushroomy • perfumy •Brummie, chummy, crumby, crummy, dummy, gummy, lumme,… Part Of Speech , part of speech, in traditional English grammar, any one of about eight major classes of words, based on the parts of speech of ancient Greek and Lati… Noun , NOUN A PART OF SPEECH or WORD CLASS typically used in a variety of sentence functions such as subject and object, generally in combination with the d… Subordination , SUBORDINATION In grammatical theory, a relationship between two units in which one is a constituent of the other or dependent on it. The subordinate… Queer , Queer
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