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Syntactic analyzation of "While I was thinking over whether I should accept such strange apologies, Coutabay leafed through the book and read loudly and expressively: "While I was thinking over whether I should accept such strange apologies, Coutabay leafed through the book and read loudly and expressively: 'While I was thinking...' Holmes quickly snatched the volume from Coutabay's hands." This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	While	Preposition
2.	I	Personal Pronoun.
3.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
4.	thinking	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
5.	over	Preposition
6.	whether	Preposition
7.	I	Personal Pronoun.
8.	should	Modal
9.	accept	Verb	Base Form.
10.	such	Adjective
11.	strange	Adjective
12.	apologies	Noun	Plural
13.	,
14.	Coutabay	Proper Noun	Singular
15.	leafed	Verb	Past Tense.
16.	through	Preposition
17.	the	Determiner
18.	book	Noun	Singular
19.	and	Conjunction
20.	read	Verb	Base Form.
21.	loudly	Adverb.
22.	and	Conjunction
23.	expressively	Adverb.
24.	:	:
25.	``
26.	While	Preposition
27.	I	Personal Pronoun.
28.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
29.	thinking	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
30.	over	Preposition
31.	whether	Preposition
32.	I	Personal Pronoun.
33.	should	Modal
34.	accept	Verb	Base Form.
35.	such	Adjective
36.	strange	Adjective
37.	apologies	Noun	Plural
38.	,
39.	Coutabay	Proper Noun	Singular
40.	leafed	Verb	Past Tense.
41.	through	Preposition
42.	the	Determiner
43.	book	Noun	Singular
44.	and	Conjunction
45.	read	Verb	Base Form.
46.	loudly	Adverb.
47.	and	Conjunction
48.	expressively	Adverb.
49.	:	:
50.	'While	Noun	Singular
51.	I	Personal Pronoun.
52.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
53.	thinking	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
54.	...	:
55.	'
56.	Holmes	Proper Noun	Singular
57.	quickly	Adverb.
58.	snatched	Verb	Past Tense.
59.	the	Determiner
60.	volume	Noun	Singular
61.	from	Preposition
62.	Coutabay	Proper Noun	Singular
63.	's	Possessive Ending.
64.	hands	Noun	Plural
65.	.	.

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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