Talk:part of speech

Hyponyms

From google book previews:

• "if temporary definitions were used—e.g., nameword for a noun, for-word for the pronoun, &c.". So, is "for-word" a synonym of "pronoun" and thus a hyponym of "part of speech"?
• "Place the symbols for the noun and the verb over the diagram. If the pupils ask, tell them one is a “nameword ” and the other an “ action-word,”. So, is "action-word" a synonym of "verb"?

-93.196.234.31 15:24, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

If these "temporary definitions" were made up for the sake of a single textbook, we wouldn't include them. Equinox ◑ 15:47, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

I know, 3 sources/quotes etc.

Further searching shows that it's

• "naming word" = noun,
• "action word" = verb,
• "describing word" = adjective.

The terms are quite common, usually in books/texts for little children. "describing-word" and "action-word" might also exist, but might be rarer. Maybe they are used together with "nameword", while the variants without hyphen are used with "naming word".

Web results (excluding google books & PDF files): www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=naming-word-action-word-describing-word , fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us/~celia_j_mccoy/resources , www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/nouns.htm

• weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2010/11/grammar_like_mother_used_to_make.html : "I teach at a small independent elementary school. The first graders are taught that a noun is a "person, place, thing, or an idea" The children insisted on adding "or animal". I guess animals are neither persons or things in their young minds. I think they are taught that a verb is an action word. An adjective is a describing word. I'm not sure that adverbs are introduced in first grade, but I guess they would be words to describe verbs.". That could explain the origin of the terms and why they might be limited to some parts of speech (or are there names for conjunction, interjection, preposition, adverb?).

But that doesn't say anything about how (un)common "for-word" is.

-93.196.234.31 16:22, 2 February 2015 (UTC)