6/14/2023 0 Comments What part of speech is the![]() ![]() So ANOTHER is a general determiner with a difference. A 'part of speech' is a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions. Wikipedia is right as it notes that 'another' serves the determining function but is more likely to be classified as an adjective in that it generally takes another determiner to complete the phrase although it still comes before other adjectives. When "another" is placed before ' five', its power of limiting extends over both 'five' and 'year' but serves the same function of an indefinite article which surprisingly A/An cannot fulfil. In the given example "five" is a quantifier. Actually determiners are used to mean proximity, relationship, quantity and definiteness. Nouns can be concrete (Alice, dog, table, etc.) or abstract. Explanation: Be is a verb because it equates a noun to doing or being another noun or adjective. Articles, possessives, numericals, quantifiers are all adjectives with a difference. A noun is any word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. ![]() For example: These are the 'building blocks' of the language. There are thousands of words but they don't all have the same job. Verbs may be treated as two different parts of speech: lexical Verbs ( work, like, run) auxiliary Verbs ( be, have, must) Determiners may be treated as adjectives, instead of being a separate part of speech. Some modern grammars add others, such as determiners and articles. "Another" is actually an indefinite article in combination with "other"(an+) and written as a single word meant to suggest an indefinite set/group or just 'a'/'an' as indefinite as they are, but with a twist. A part of speech is one of the nine types of English words: VERB, NOUN, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB, PRONOUN, PREPOSITION, DETERMINER, CONJUNCTION, INTERJECTION. The parts of speech are classified differently in different grammars, but most traditional grammars list eight parts of speech in English: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Pronouns usually substitute for nouns and function as nouns, e.g., I, you, he, she, it, we, they, myself, this, that, who, which, everyone. "Another" belongs to the category of general determiners with "a", "an", "any" etc., the plural of which is " other". Nouns name persons, places, things, ideas, or qualities, e.g., Franklin, boy, Yangtze River, shoreline, Bible, desk, fear, happiness. Determiners are noun markers and clarify nouns. ![]()
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