Parts of speech analyzer tagging the sentence with adjectives, adverbs, conjugations, determiners, nouns, numbers, prepositions, pronouns and verbs.
Syntactic analyzation of "While most U.S. secretaries of state -- save perhaps Dean Rusk -- have gobbled up credit for outcomes that they had little to do with, few have been as brazen as Colin Powell." This part of speech text is verified.
| # | Word | Part of speech | Syntactic relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | While | Conjuction | Subordinating |
| 2. | most | Adjective | Superlative |
| 3. | U.S. | Proper Noun | Singular |
| 4. | secretaries | Noun | Plural |
| 5. | of | Preposition | |
| 6. | state | Noun | Singular |
| 7. | -- | Punctuation | |
| 8. | save | Preposition | |
| 9. | perhaps | Adverb | |
| 10. | Dean | Proper Noun | Singular |
| 11. | Rusk | Proper Noun | Singular |
| 12. | -- | Punctuation | |
| 13. | have | Verb | Auxiliary |
| 14. | gobbled | Verb | Past Tense. |
| 15. | up | Preposition | |
| 16. | credit | Noun | Singular |
| 17. | for | Preposition | |
| 18. | outcomes | Noun | Plural |
| 19. | that | Pronoun | |
| 20. | they | Pronoun | |
| 21. | had | Verb | Past Tense. |
| 22. | little | Adjective | Positive |
| 23. | to | Particle | |
| 24. | do | Verb | Base Form. |
| 25. | with | Preposition | |
| 26. | , | Punctuation | |
| 27. | few | Adjective | Positive |
| 28. | have | Verb | Auxiliary |
| 29. | been | Verb | Auxiliary |
| 30. | as | Adverb | |
| 31. | brazen | Adjective | Positive |
| 32. | as | Preposition | |
| 33. | Colin | Proper Noun | Singular |
| 34. | Powell | Proper Noun | Singular |
| 35. | . | Punctuation |
Below you can see a brief explanation of the eight main parts of speech. Memorize each word type to get a better understanding of the composition of a sentence.
A noun names a person, place, things or idea. Examples dog, cat, horse, student, teacher, apple, Mary etc...
An adverb tells how often, ho, when, where. It can describe a verb, an adjective or an adverb. Examples loudly, always, never, later, soon etc...
A verb is a word or group of words that desribes an action, experience. Examples realize, walk, see, look, sing, sit, listen etc...
An adjective describes a noun or pronoun. Examples red, tall, fat, long, short, blue, beautiful, sour etc...
A preposition is used before a noun, pronoun, or gerund to show place, time, direction in a sentence. Examples at, in, to, for, from etc...
Conjuntions join words or groups of words in a sentence. Examples and, because, yet, therefore, moreover, since, or, so, until, but etc...
Pronouns replace the name of a person, place, thing or idea in a sentence. Examples he, she it, we, they, him, her, this, that etc...
Interjections express strong emotion and is often followed by an exclamation point. Examples Bravo! Hooray! Yeah! Oops! Phew!
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