| Major POS |
Minor POS |
Example |
Descriptions |
*Gender/ Number Applicable? |
|
Noun
|
Common Noun
|
man, cow
|
represents an entire species or class of people
|
A
|
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Proper Noun
|
Ram, Hari
|
name of a specific person, animal, object
|
A
|
|
Material Noun
|
water, table
|
represents an entire class of non-living thing
|
P
|
|
Verbal Noun
|
tour, movement
|
represents the action i.e. the abstract noun from of verbs
|
N
|
|
Abstract Noun
|
happiness, beauty
|
reprents a quality or emotion i.e. abstract noun from of adjectives, emotions etc
|
N
|
|
Pronoun
|
|
he, she, they, yesterday, now
|
Place holder of a noun
|
A
|
|
Adjective
|
Proper Adjective
|
beautiful, ugly
|
qualifies a noun
|
A
|
|
Verbal Adjective
|
drawn, edited
|
refers to objects modified by an action
|
N
|
|
Adjective Adjective
|
very much, too many
|
qualifies another adjective
|
N
|
|
Adverb
|
quickly, repeatedly
|
qualifies a verb
|
N
|
|
Verb
|
Transitive
|
eat, get
|
The subject effects an object by the action
|
N
|
|
Intransitive
|
walk, cry
|
The subject DOES NOT effect an object by the action
|
N
|
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Others
|
Adposition (Preposition, Postposition & Circumposition)
|
of, to, in, for, on, with, as, by, at, from
|
indicates a relation between things mentioned in a sentence
|
N
|
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Interjection
|
oh! bravo!
|
has no grammatical connection to the rest of the sentence and simply expresses emotion on the part of the speaker
|
N
|
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Conjunction
|
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so , both … and, either … or, neither … nor, and not (only) … but (… also), although, before, until, while
|
connects two words, phrases, or clauses together
|
N
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