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PARTS OF SPEECH (PARSING)
To Parse - a word is to give an explanation of its grammar. In parsing, the part of speech to which the word belongs is named , and the relationship it has to other words in the sentence is explained.
Parsing Nouns:
Number, case, reason for case:
-example: The Officer’s servant waited in the tent .
Officer’s – noun , singular, genitive (possessive case ), adjective equivalent , depending on “servant”;
Servant – noun , singular, nominative, subject to “waited “.
Tent - noun, singular , accusative , governed by the preposition “in”.
Parsing Verbs:
Wind – (transitive, in transitive ) , conjugation (strong , weak ) , voice, mood , tense, person, number , agreement with subject :
Auxiliaries should be taken with the verb to which they belong and the compound verb parsed as a whole.
-example:
I shall buy the house which is being built.
-shall buy – verb, transitive , weak , active, indicative, future , 1 st person, singular , agrees with
its subject “I” .
-is being built – verb, transitive, weak , passive, indicative, present continuous, third person, singular, agrees with its subject “ which” .
Words used as different parts of speech:
-example :
past , bat, coin, stick ,scale, register, train, stamp, drop, bear , bark, spot, place, peak , safe, cross,
right , left , store, race, fish , change, store, escape, step , delay, water , judge, quarrel, form, call,
play, search etc.
using the verb in the past tense
-example:1:
The car sped past us (used as adverb)
She remembered her past (used as noun)
-example :2:
since , after , as , but, like, more, one, that, than, what, when , which etc.
He has not called since Saturday.(used as Proposition).
The man was severely punished and he has never been in trouble since. (used as adverb).
Words used as different parts of speech :
The following are some of the words which may belong to different parts of speech according to the way in which they are used:
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