Parts of a sentence
Classifications of words, phrases, and clauses according to the way they figure in sentences. (See auxiliary verb, conjunction, dependent clause, direct object, independent clause, indirect object, modifier, predicate, and subject.)
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- Parts of holland
noun 1. See Holland1 (sense 3)
- Parts of kesteven
noun 1. See (Parts of) Kesteven
- Parts of lindsey
noun 1. See (Parts of) Lindsey
- Parts of speech
Classifications of words according to their relations to each other and to the things they represent. Different parts of speech name actions, name the performers of actions, describe the performers or actions, and so on. The common parts of speech are adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs.
- Part-song
noun 1. a song with parts for several voices, especially one meant to be sung without accompaniment. noun 1. a song composed in harmonized parts 2. (in more technical usage) a piece of homophonic choral music in which the topmost part carries the melody