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MAJOR FORM CLASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("major form class" is a kind of...):
form class; part of speech; word class (one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "major form class"):
noun (the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition)
verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)
adjective (the word class that qualifies nouns)
adverb (the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses)
