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Form Class

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Noun

1. form class, part of speech, word class

one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

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Form Class

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noun
1.  another term for part of speech
2. 
a group of words distinguished by common inflections, such as the weak verbs of English

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Form Class

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Linguistics
a class made up of words that occur in a distinctive position in constructions and have certain formal features in common, as the form class noun in English, made up of all words to which both the plural and possessive suffixes may be added

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Form Class

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n.
A set of words that have one or more grammatical or syntactic characteristics in common, such as the class of transitive verbs in English.

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