Parts of speech analyzer tagging the sentence with adjectives, adverbs, conjugations, determiners, nouns, numbers, prepositions, pronouns and verbs.
Syntactic analyzation of "Lawmakers and consumer groups allege that the events - directed by the man who heads the state's energy grid - fueled the California energy crisis, pushed the state into the power-buying business and helped make billions of dollars for power producers." This part of speech text is verified.
| # | Word | Part of speech | Syntactic relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lawmakers | Noun | Plural |
| 2. | and | Conjuction | Coordinating |
| 3. | consumer | Noun | Singular |
| 4. | groups | Noun | Plural |
| 5. | allege | Verb | Present Tense. |
| 6. | that | Conjuction | Subordinating |
| 7. | the | Determiner | |
| 8. | events | Noun | Plural |
| 9. | - | Punctuation | |
| 10. | directed | Verb | Past Tense. |
| 11. | by | Preposition | |
| 12. | the | Determiner | |
| 13. | man | Noun | Singular |
| 14. | who | Pronoun | |
| 15. | heads | Verb | 3rd person sing. |
| 16. | the | Determiner | |
| 17. | state | Noun | Singular |
| 18. | 's | Particle | |
| 19. | energy | Noun | Singular |
| 20. | grid | Noun | Singular |
| 21. | - | Punctuation | |
| 22. | fueled | Verb | Past Tense. |
| 23. | the | Determiner | |
| 24. | California | Proper Noun | Singular |
| 25. | energy | Noun | Singular |
| 26. | crisis | Noun | Singular |
| 27. | , | Punctuation | |
| 28. | pushed | Verb | Past Tense. |
| 29. | the | Determiner | |
| 30. | state | Noun | Singular |
| 31. | into | Preposition | |
| 32. | the | Determiner | |
| 33. | power | Noun | Singular |
| 34. | - | Punctuation | |
| 35. | buying | Verb | Gerund/Present Participle. |
| 36. | business | Noun | Singular |
| 37. | and | Conjuction | Coordinating |
| 38. | helped | Verb | Past Tense. |
| 39. | make | Verb | Base Form. |
| 40. | billions | Noun | Plural |
| 41. | of | Preposition | |
| 42. | dollars | Noun | Plural |
| 43. | for | Preposition | |
| 44. | power | Noun | Singular |
| 45. | producers | Noun | Plural |
| 46. | . | 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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