Timeline for Which part of speech is "left" in "now there are only 5 cars left"?
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| Sep 14, 2022 at 5:46 | comment | added | Aung Oakkar | What do adjectives do? They describe nouns. If we say "a bottle of water", both "bottle" and "water" are Nouns. If we say "water bottle", it means "a bottle used to store water". The word "water" describes "bottle". So it is an adjective. "chicken burger = a burger that is made with chicken". Chicken is an adjective. "crocodile bag = a bag that is made from crocodile skin". Crocodile is an adjective, despite the fact that OALD shows it as Uncountable Noun. | |
| Sep 14, 2022 at 5:45 | comment | added | Aung Oakkar | As I mentioned above "words are divided according to their grammar" i.e. " how they work". If we use "closing" as Present Participle, it is a verb. If we use it as Gerund, it is a Noun. If we use it as Modifier, it is an adjective. Otherwise, there will be Gerund as a word class and we won't call a Gerund as "a type of Noun". | |
| Sep 14, 2022 at 5:44 | comment | added | Aung Oakkar | First, I'm not an English Professor nor Native Speaker. I'm just an English Learner. I'm just sharing how I see with you all. Someone asked me a reference and I cannot provide that. My knowledge is limited. Even if a book said something, that doesn't mean it's true. Books are dead. We, people and thinking of people are alive. At least that's how I see. | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 21:33 | comment | added | cpit | Also the examples you give in (2) and the second one in (3) aren't adjectives, despite their being modifiers. Chicken and crocodile are still nouns, and closing is still a gerund (a type of noun). | |
| Sep 12, 2022 at 21:27 | comment | added | cpit | How many "kinds" of adjectives there are in English (if adjectives are even divided up in such a way) is not really a matter of point of view. There might be a debate about how many/what kinds there are, but that's not quite the same as it being a matter of opinion or perspective. | |
| Aug 14, 2022 at 14:41 | comment | added | Aung Oakkar | Sorry, I copy them from my notes. I don't remember where I got it from. "Word Classes" are also called "Parts of Speech". | |
| Aug 14, 2022 at 14:37 | comment | added | brilliant | Can you, please, provide a link to those Nine Word Classes? | |
| Aug 14, 2022 at 14:36 | comment | added | Aung Oakkar | English words are divided into nine word classes according to their grammar. (1)adjective (2)adverb (3)conjunction (4)determiner (5)exclamation (6)noun (7)preposition (8)pronoun (9)verb. | |
| Aug 14, 2022 at 8:11 | comment | added | Joachim | What is "Word Class", and what are you referring to with "Nine Word Classes"? | |
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| S Aug 13, 2022 at 22:10 | history | answered | Aung Oakkar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |