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Syntactic analyzation of ""By the way," I asked suddenly, stopping and turning upon Stamford, "how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?" My companion smiled an enigmatical smile. "That's just his little peculiarity," he said. " A good many people have wanted to know how he finds things out."" This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	``
2.	By	Preposition
3.	the	Determiner
4.	way	Noun	Singular
5.	,
6.	''
7.	I	Personal Pronoun.
8.	asked	Verb	Past Tense.
9.	suddenly	Adverb.
10.	,
11.	stopping	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
12.	and	Conjunction
13.	turning	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
14.	upon	Preposition
15.	Stamford	Proper Noun	Singular
16.	,
17.	``
18.	how	wh-abverb.
19.	the	Determiner
20.	deuce	Noun	Singular
21.	did	Verb	Past Tense.
22.	he	Personal Pronoun.
23.	know	Verb	Base Form.
24.	that	Preposition
25.	I	Personal Pronoun.
26.	had	Verb	Past Tense.
27.	come	Verb	Past Participle.
28.	from	Preposition
29.	Afghanistan	Proper Noun	Singular
30.	?	.
31.	''
32.	My	Possessive Pronoun.
33.	companion	Noun	Singular
34.	smiled	Verb	Past Tense.
35.	an	Determiner
36.	enigmatical	Adjective
37.	smile	Noun	Singular
38.	.	.
39.	``
40.	That	Determiner
41.	's	Verb	3rd person sing.
42.	just	Adverb.
43.	his	Possessive Pronoun.
44.	little	Adjective
45.	peculiarity	Noun	Singular
46.	,
47.	''
48.	he	Personal Pronoun.
49.	said.	Verb	3rd person sing.
50.	``
51.	A	Determiner
52.	good	Adjective
53.	many	Adjective
54.	people	Noun	Plural
55.	have	Verb	Sing Present
56.	wanted	Verb	Past Participle.
57.	to	to.
58.	know	Verb	Base Form.
59.	how	wh-abverb.
60.	he	Personal Pronoun.
61.	finds	Verb	3rd person sing.
62.	things	Noun	Plural
63.	out	Particle.
64.	.	.
65.	''

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Noun

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

Adverb

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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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