Part-of-speech Sentence Examples

part-of-speech

  • The part of speech is in red, and the different senses of the word are in green.

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  • You'll receive a definition of the word, what type of word it is (noun, verb, etc.) and a sentence using the word in that part of speech.

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  • For example, dictionaries often give the part of speech of a word, as well as the gender of French nouns.

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  • Each entry is completed with part of speech information and provides several lexical meanings for all polysemantic words.

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