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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

group, grouping go
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

accumulation, collection, aggregation, assemblage go
several things grouped together or considered as a whole

class, category, family go
a collection of things sharing a common attribute

grammatical category, syntactic category
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties

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7 Subcategories

case, grammatical case go
nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
part of speech, form class, word class go
one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
number go
the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)
person go
a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
gender, grammatical gender go
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives
tense go
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
semantic role, participant role go
(linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause