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form class vs grammatical category

grammatical category vs form class

form class and grammatical category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
form class Yes No No No
grammatical category Yes No No No
As nouns, grammatical category is a hypernym of form class; that is, grammatical category is a word with a broader meaning than form class:
  • form class: one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
  • grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of form class include syntactic category.
form class (noun) grammatical category (noun)
one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Difference between form class and grammatical category

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