Episode 165: Glamorous Grammar
The History of English Podcast
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How Many Parts of Speech Are There?
Bullicar tried to describe English in terms of inflectional endings, but ran into problems. How many parts of speech are there and how do you categorize them? That's a source of some debate among modern scholars. The ancient Greeks were first people in the western world to write about parts of speech.
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