Re: How do you know if an English word is: verb, adj, etc.?

On Aug 6, 6:05 am, "John Dean" <john-d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
maasul...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 5, 4:10 pm, "John Dean" <john-d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
maasul...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,

You pick-up a word in English, is there a formal way to know
whether a word is verb, noun, etc.? Is it by the way it sounds?
There has to be a technical way for testing a word to know so!

A word on its own may be several parts of speech at once. The only
way you can tell what a word is in a given context is by that
context itself.
So, 'word' may be a noun - as you and I have been using it here - or
a verb - "I wondered how to word my reply to your question."
'best' may be an adjective, an adverb or a verb. 'elect' is noun,
adjective and verb.
Often the pronunciation (as in the above examples) is identical.
Sometimes it is different - 'contract' the noun and 'contract' the
verb - but that is not an indicator in itself of *which* part of
speech the word is. --

What all of you are saying is true but that is not where I am
heading!

If you have a number (say 10) you can check if that number >0 by
writing thing like: If 10 < 0 then....etc.

Now, say I have an English word such as "large" and I want to say
thing like: If "large" is adj, then...etc.

I need a rule or something so a computer code can check to make a
decision. Is there such a rule in ENGLISH?

Unfortunately, your English isn't good enough to make it clear exactly what
it is you want. And if your English isn't sufficient for that, I don't think
you're the person to be devising tests to analyse the English language. Your
rule is unlikely to rule.
--
John Dean
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To all,

Some of you had the vision to see where I am going but some didn't. I
am building an algorithm that converts context into ontology. One
component of such an algorithm is to go through a sentence and parse
words into verbs, nouns, etc...............That is all!

For example, say I have this sentence: "John might go to Paris next
week on a business trip." I want to be able to define first every word
grammatical status! Someone mentioed some Parsers. Can someone refer
me to a good one? Any creative idea?

Thanks,
Mike

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