Word Type
For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
FAQs
We use a combination of three criteria for determining the word class of a word:
- The meaning of the word.
- The form or `shape' of the word.
- The position or `environment' of the word in a sentence.
language note: We is the first person plural pronoun. We is used as the subject of a verb. A speaker or writer uses we to refer both to himself or herself and to one or more other people as a group. You can use we before a noun to make it clear which group of people you are referring to.
What kind of part of speech is the word to? ›
To can be a particle, an adverb or a preposition - Word Type.
What kind of grammatical word is which? ›
The word which is a pronoun and a determiner. Definition: Used referring to something previously mentioned when introducing a clause giving further information.
How do you identify unknown words in a text? ›
Try These Six Strategies for Tackling Unfamiliar Words
- Break it up into pieces.
- Look for context clues.
- Make connections to other words you've heard.
- Make connections to your own life.
- Take a guess — even if it's wrong.
- Look it up in a dictionary.
Approach: In this algorithm, stringstream is used to break the sentence into words then compare each individual word of the sentence with the given word. If the word is found then the function returns true.
What are the types of word type? ›
Words are grouped by function
- adjectives.
- adverbs.
- conjunctions.
- determiners.
- nouns.
- prepositions.
- pronouns.
- verbs.
An autological word is a word that is what it describes — it fits its own definition. The classic example is polysyllabic, a word that means having more than one syllable and does in fact itself have more than one syllable.
What word class is it in? ›
Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns, like: me, you, his, it, this, that, mine, yours, who, what.
What kind of preposition is the word to? ›
Prepositions which contain only one word are known as Single Prepositions. For eg- on, at, in, to for, of, from, up, etc.
The word out normally functions as an adverb but it can also function as a preposition, an adjective, a verb and a noun.
What part of speech is the word is this? ›
The words this, that, these, and those are demonstrative pronouns. The demonstrative pronouns are used instead of a noun phrase to indicate distance in time or space in relation to the speaker. They also indicate grammatical number – singular or plural.
What type of tense is the word is? ›
The word is is a present tense verb used with a third person singular subject, which typically includes every noun/pronoun that isn't the pronoun I or you.
What type of grammar is a verb? ›
Verbs are the action words in a sentence that describe what the subject is doing. Along with nouns, verbs are the main part of a sentence or phrase, telling a story about what is taking place.
What are interrogative adjectives examples? ›
Examples of interrogative adjectives include what, whose and which. Examples of interrogative pronouns include who, whom, whose, what and which. Which movie did you watch recently? Do you know whose bags these are?
What are the 5 major word classes? ›
There are four major word classes: verb, noun, adjective, adverb. There are five other word classes: determiners, preposition, pronoun, conjunction, interjection. So there are nine word classes (or parts of speech) in total.
What is the meaning of type in word? ›
verb (used with object),typed, typ·ing. to write on a typewriter or keyboard; typewrite or keyboard.
What are open and closed class words? ›
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.
What are the criteria for defining a word? ›
There are several criteria for a speech sound, or a combination of some speech sounds to be called a word.
- There must be a potential pause in speech and a space in written form between two words. ...
- Every word must contain at least one root. ...
- Every word must have a meaning.
