Practical definitions of parts of speech

Task:

POS can be described systematically in terms of the four types of criterion:

A Noun is a POS which has the properties ...

and these properties can be listed in a table.

Category Context Structure Meaning Surface Nouns Pronouns Determiners Adjectives Prepositions Adverbs Conjunctions Interjections Verbs

Task:

Characterise the distinction between

• grammatical POS (or grammatical words and
• content POS or content words.