PART OF SPEECH
Part Of Speech In every language, almost all of the lexical items fall naturally into a small number of classes, and the words in each class behave grammatically in much the same way. Linguists often call these classes word classes or lexical categories , but the traditional term is parts of speech. The ancient Greek grammarians recognized eight parts of speech for their language. The Roman grammarians who followed them recognized a slightly different list of eight classes for their own language, Latin. Over the centuries, European grammarians proposed several different lists for English and other languages, though curiously the total number of classes recognized was eight in almost every proposal. By the early twentieth century, grammarians of English had agreed on a set of eight parts of speech: noun , pronoun , adjective , verb , adverb , preposition , conjunction and interjection . This list of categories became the orthodox view of English and of other languages, and i