form class (redirected from form classes)

form class

n.

A set of words that have one or more grammatical or syntactic characteristics in common, such as the class of transitive verbs in English.

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form class

n

1. (Linguistics / Grammar) another term for part of speech

2. (Linguistics / Grammar) a group of words distinguished by common inflections, such as the weak verbs of English

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

form class - one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context part of speech, word class grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties major form class - any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar