The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Columbia Encyclopedia World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. The parts of speech are noun , verb , adjective , adverb, interjection , preposition , conjunction , and pronoun .
Some grammarians add articles, quantifiers, and numerals.
However, an alternate method of defining parts of speech is in terms of the structural features and distribution patterns within a sentence. Thus toy would constitute a different part of speech in each of the above sentences since the word functions in different environments in each sentence, i.e., as a subject and as a modifier. See also inflection . The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore .