Part of speech refers to the linguistic categories for words or lexical items, such as noun, verb, adjective and adverb, etc. Which is the single word meaning “part of speech” exactly? Answer To summarize the discussion that has happened in the above comments: There is no general single-word replacement for “part of speech” that has … Read more
Playing tennis is a lot of fun. Is this a structure of [adjective: a lot of][noun: fun] or [adverb: a lot of][adjective: fun]? Answer The ‘Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English’ describes a lot of as a quantifying determiner. That makes the structure of your example [determiner: a lot of] [noun: fun]. AttributionSource … Read more
When thus gentle, Bessie seemed to me the best, prettiest, kindest being in the world; and I wished most intensely that she would always be so pleasant and amiable, and never push me about, or scold, or task me unreasonably, as she was too often wont to do. Bessie Lee must, I think, have been … Read more
It was the fifteenth of January, about nine o’clock in the morning: Bessie was gone down to breakfast; my cousins had not yet been summoned to their mama; Eliza was putting on her bonnet and warm garden-coat to go and feed her poultry, an occupation of which she was fond: and not less so of … Read more
