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Syntactic analyzation of ""It is one thing to write as a poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth."" This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	``
2.	It	Personal Pronoun.
3.	is	Verb	3rd person sing.
4.	one	Cardinal Digit
5.	thing	Noun	Singular
6.	to	to.
7.	write	Verb	Base Form.
8.	as	Preposition
9.	a	Determiner
10.	poet	Noun	Singular
11.	and	Conjunction
12.	another	Determiner
13.	to	to.
14.	write	Verb	Base Form.
15.	as	Preposition
16.	a	Determiner
17.	historian	Noun	Singular
18.	:	:
19.	the	Determiner
20.	poet	Noun	Singular
21.	can	Modal
22.	recount	Verb	Base Form.
23.	or	Conjunction
24.	sing	Verb	Base Form.
25.	about	Preposition
26.	things	Noun	Plural
27.	not	Adverb.
28.	as	Preposition
29.	they	Personal Pronoun.
30.	were	Verb	Past Tense.
31.	,
32.	but	Conjunction
33.	as	Preposition
34.	they	Personal Pronoun.
35.	should	Modal
36.	have	Verb	Base Form.
37.	been	Verb	Past Participle.
38.	,
39.	and	Conjunction
40.	the	Determiner
41.	historian	Noun	Singular
42.	must	Modal
43.	write	Verb	Base Form.
44.	about	Preposition
45.	them	Personal Pronoun.
46.	not	Adverb.
47.	as	Preposition
48.	they	Personal Pronoun.
49.	should	Modal
50.	have	Verb	Base Form.
51.	been	Verb	Past Participle.
52.	,
53.	but	Conjunction
54.	as	Preposition
55.	they	Personal Pronoun.
56.	were	Verb	Past Tense.
57.	,
58.	without	Preposition
59.	adding	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
60.	or	Conjunction
61.	subtracting	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
62.	anything	Noun	Singular
63.	from	Preposition
64.	the	Determiner
65.	truth	Noun	Singular
66.	.	.
67.	''

Eight parts of speech

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.

Noun

A noun names a person, place, things or idea. Examples dog, cat, horse, student, teacher, apple, Mary etc...

Adverb

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...

Verb

A verb is a word or group of words that desribes an action, experience. Examples realize, walk, see, look, sing, sit, listen etc...

Adjective

An adjective describes a noun or pronoun. Examples red, tall, fat, long, short, blue, beautiful, sour etc...

Preposition

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...

Conjuction

Conjuntions join words or groups of words in a sentence. Examples and, because, yet, therefore, moreover, since, or, so, until, but etc...

Pronoun

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...

Interjection

Interjections express strong emotion and is often followed by an exclamation point. Examples Bravo! Hooray! Yeah! Oops! Phew!

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