The difference between Part of speech and Word class

When used as nouns, part of speech means a linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb, whereas word class means a linguistic form class whose members are words.


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  1. Part of speech as a noun (grammar):

    A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.

  1. Word class as a noun (linguistics):

    A linguistic form class whose members are words.

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