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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Parts of speech

In the poem Jabberwocky, in the line "The jaws that bite, the claws that catch," what part of speech is that?
  

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He is, if memory serves, telling him what to be wary of. Those two noun phrases (which is what they are) further describe the Jabberwock and what makes it fierce.

— BarbaraPA

  • He is, if memory serves, telling him what to be wary of.
  • Those two noun phrases (which is what they are) further describe the Jabberwock and what makes it fierce.
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He is, if memory serves, telling him what to be wary of. Those two noun phrases (which is what they are) further describe the Jabberwock and what makes it fierce.
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Anonymous"The jaws that bite, the claws that catch," what part of speech is that?
An entire line cannot be a part of speech. You have eight words there, so there are eight parts of speech to identify.

1 the - determiner
2 jaws - noun
3 that - relative pronoun
4 bite - verb

And the same for words 5 - 8.

CJ
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AnonymousIn the poem Jabberwocky, in the line "The jaws that bite, the claws that catch," what part of speech is that?

'That' belongs to the category (or word class/part of speech) 'subordinator'. It introduces the relative clauses 'that bite' and 'that catch'.

BillJ
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BillJ'That' belongs to the category ...
Yikes! Missed that. Or rather, missed "that".

What part of speech is that? vs What part of speech is "that"?

LOL.

CJ
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