Verbs as a part of speech contents Introduction

VERBS AS A PART OF SPEECH
Contents
Introduction……………………………………………………………………….3
Chapter I. The verb as a part of speech and its main characteristic features...5
1.1. The category of mood. The category of tense and aspect……………………..5
1.2. The verb as a part of speech. Classification of verbs………………………….9
1.3. Part of speech in modern English…………………………………………….18
Chapter II. A general outline of the verb as a part of speech………………...24
2.1. Classification of Verbs…………………………………………………….....24
2.2. The characteristic features of verbs as a part of speech……………………...28
2.3. The eight parts of speech……………………………………………………..33
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………..36
References………………………………………………………………………..38

Introduction
The actuality of the theme: In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to the same part of speech generally display similar syntactic behavior (they play similar roles within the grammatical structure of sentences), sometimes similar morphological behavior in that they undergo inflection for similar properties and even similar semantic behavior. Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, numeral, article, and determiner.
Other terms than part of speech—particularly in modern linguistic classifications, which often make more precise distinctions than the traditional scheme does—include word class, lexical class, and lexical category. Some authors restrict the term lexical category to refer only to a particular type of syntactic category; for them the term excludes those parts of speech that are considered to be function words, such as pronouns. The term form class is also used, although this has various conflicting definitions. Word classes may be classified as open or closed: open classes (typically including nouns, verbs and adjectives) acquire new members constantly, while closed classes (such as pronouns and conjunctions) acquire new members infrequently, if at all.