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particle (Particle)

An umbrella Class for any Word that does not fit into the other subclasses of Word. A Particle is generally a small term that serves a grammatical or logical function, e.g. 'and', 'of', 'since', etc. At some point, this class might be broken up into the subclasses 'Connective', 'Preposition', etc. Note that the class Particle includes both personal and possessive pronouns, e.g. 'she', 'hers', 'it', 'its', etc.

Ontology

SUMO / OBJECTS

Superclass(es)

[tree]
entity
is subclass of
  physical  
is subclass of
  object  
is subclass of
  self connected object  
is subclass of
  content bearing object  
is subclass of
  linguistic expression  
is subclass of
  word  
is subclass of
  particle  

Coordinate term(s)

adjective  adverb  noun  verb 

Related WordNet synsets

particle
a function word having different uses in different languages
particle is kind of (all)...   particle is kind of...  
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Axioms (1)

word is exhaustively partitioned into noun,verb,adjective,adverb,particle. 
(partition Word Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Particle)