major form class

/ˌmeɪdʒər fɔərm klæs/

Definitions of major form class

1. noun

   any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar
   types:

   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

   auxiliary verb

   a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with

   infinitive

   the uninflected form of the verb

   participial, participle

   a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses

   phrasal verb

   an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit

   transitive, transitive verb, transitive verb form

   a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

   intransitive, intransitive verb, intransitive verb form

   a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

   type of:

   form class, part of speech, word class

   one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context