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MAJOR FORM CLASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does major form class mean? 

MAJOR FORM CLASS (noun)
  The noun MAJOR FORM CLASS has 1 sense:

1. any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammarplay

  Familiarity information: MAJOR FORM CLASS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MAJOR FORM CLASS (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)


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