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When you look up a word in the dictionary, you can usually see something called "part of speech." A part of speech is a label that tells you how a word can be used in a sentence. In English, there are nine parts of speech. They are called noun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, pronoun, article, and interjection.
If you look up the word "snow" in this dictionary, you can see that it has two different parts of speech. One part of speech is "noun," and the other is "verb." This is because "snow" is sometimes a thing--cold, white stuff from the sky--and sometimes it's an action--cold, white stuff FALLING from the sky. When "snow" is a thing, we call the word a noun. When "snow" is an action, we call it a verb. When we say "There was a lot of snow," the word is a noun. When we say "It snowed a lot," the word is a verb. Some words have many different parts of speech and can be used in many different ways in sentences.
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