Grammatical Category (Noun)
Meaning
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- Nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are examples of grammatical categories in the English language.
- In some languages, grammatical category is not limited to parts of speech but also includes concepts like tense and case.
- The grammatical category of a word can determine its syntactic function within a sentence.
- Ancient grammarians struggled to categorize some words into specific grammatical categories due to their irregularities.
- In linguistics, identifying and describing grammatical categories is crucial for understanding a language's structure and function.