'WERE' is a verb - plural form of was, which is past tense of the verb am/is/are which is part of the "state of being" verb "to be" I am or I was You are or You were He/She/It is or He/She/It was They are or They were
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_part_of_speech_is_'were'
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were is a verb. It is the plural form of the simple past of the verb to be .
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_part_of_speech_is_''were...
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Parts of Speech; Chapter 3 - Verbs; ... A verb is often defined as a word which shows action or state of being. The verb is the heart of a ... Unlike most of the other parts of speech, verbs change their form. Sometimes endings are added (learn - learned) and sometimes the word itself becomes different (teach-taught).
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eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos3.htm
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Part-of-speech tagging - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging ( POS tagging or POST ), also called grammatical tagging or word-category disambiguation , is the process of marking up the words in a text (cor...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part-of-speech_tagging
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The Parts of Speech ... The Parts of the Sentence ... Identify the part of speech of the highlighted word in each of the following sentences:
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www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvpa...
www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvpartsp.html
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Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. ... The next few examples show how a word's part of speech can change from one sentence to the next, and following them is a series of sections on the...
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www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/part...
www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html
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Decide what parts of speech should be used to fill out the blanks. (Then see if you can supply an appropriate word) ... 1. These kids it hard to express themselves. ... 2. people are impervious to criticism.
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www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/quiz/partspee.htm
www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/quiz/partspee.htm
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Students will match the part of speech with the correct definition. ... Java Games: Matching, concentration, word search, and flashcards ... Copy this to my account...
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www.quia.com/jg/65832.html
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Description and explanation of the 8 parts of speech in English. ... And we use cement to join them all together. Each part of the house has its own job. And when we want to build a sentence, we use the different types of word. Each type of word has its own job. ... It's quite important to recognize parts of speech.
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www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech.htm
www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech.htm
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