SYNTACTIC CATEGORY
(noun)Definitions
There is 1 meaning of the phrase
Syntactic Category.
Syntactic Category - as a noun
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Synonyms (Exact Relations)
grammatical categoryHypernyms (Closely Related)
categoryclassfamilyHyponyms (Broadly Related)
Example Sentences
"The noun is a major syntactic category in English grammar."
"Adjectives and adverbs belong to the same syntactic category in many languages."
"Determiners are a distinct syntactic category that modifies nouns."
"Verbs form a large and important syntactic category in most languages."
"Pronouns are a specific type of syntactic category that replace nouns."
