form class

/fɔərm klæs/

Other forms: form classes

Definitions of form class

1. noun

   one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
   synonyms: part of speech, word class

   types:

   major form class

   any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar

   noun

   the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

   verb

   the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence

   adjective

   the word class that qualifies nouns

   adverb

   the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses

   type of:

   grammatical category, syntactic category

   (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties