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POS

POS

1 5.1
A type of word in grammar like a noun, verb, or adjective
  • noun
  • /piː oʊ ɛs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : categoría gramatical
  • The recorded observations were analyzed using the Play Observation Scale (POS) described by Rubin (2001) and the Individual Social Behavior Scale (ISBS) developed by Guralnick and Groom (1987).

Examples

  • Understanding the POS is crucial for properly constructing sentences.

  • In grammar class, we learned that a POS can be a noun, verb, or adjective.

  • I can't go into an establishment like this and not pay attention to POS to how fast is the register moving.

  • Perhaps our failure to observe specialized functions for POS and PRO was because these features occurred much less frequently overall compared to occurrences of HAD.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The core message within the POS movement is that organizations need to engage in positive behaviors for the sake of organizational members, not specifically for the sake of enhanced organizational performance.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Another premise linking positive psychology and the positive organizational approaches of POS and POB is the explicit focus on developing and working with the human element of organizations.

    Academic text (2008)

  • The instrument operationalized the concept of "belief" by incorporating a validated scale, the Professional Opinions Scale (POS) (Abbott, 1988; Abbott, 1999).

    Academic text (2008)

  • Each word in the sentence is categorized by its POS, which helps identify its function.

Synonyms

part of speech
vsPOS
  • Specialized
1 3.5

A class of words like noun, verb, or adjective

is the abbreviation used for that same grammatical category
word class
vsPOS
3.9

A group of words with the same role in a sentence, like noun or verb

is the abbreviated form of that same category term
form class
vsPOS
  • Specialized
6.9

A group of words that do the same job in grammar, like a noun or verb

is the abbreviation referring to those grammatical categories without listing parts

Compounds

POS tagger
  • Specialized
6.4

A computer program that labels words in text with parts of speech like noun or verb

Surface Forms

POS singular
POSs plural

Morphology

POS = P + O + S

This is an initialism (acronym) whose letters stand for words; the letters are not English morphemes and do not transparently convey the meaning.

Etymology

POS stands for part of speech, meaning the grammar group a word belongs to, like noun or verb. Think of it as a small label that shows a word's 'job' in a sentence, which is why teachers ask for the POS.