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syntactic category vs person

person vs syntactic category

syntactic category and person both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
syntactic category Yes No No No
person Yes No No No
As nouns, person is a hyponym of syntactic category; that is, person is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than syntactic category:
  • syntactic category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
  • person: a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
Other hyponyms of syntactic category include case, grammatical case, form class, part of speech, word class, number, gender, grammatical gender, tense, participant role, semantic role, inanimacy.
syntactic category (noun) person (noun)
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
a human body (usually including the clothing)
a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
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