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So can be a conjunction, an adjective, an interjection, a noun, an abbreviation or an adverb.
so used as a conjunction:
- In order that
"Eat your broccoli so you can have dessert."
Conjunctions are connector words. Examples of conjunctions are: and, but, so. They help us to group words and connect phrases, like in the sentence: "We have apples and oranges, but we need bananas." Learn more →
so used as an adjective:
- true.
"That is so." - In that state, with that attribute. Replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.
- homosexual.
"Is he so?"
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
so used as an interjection:
- An interjection after a pause for thought.
"So, let's go home." - An interjection used to introduce a question.
"So, what'll you have?" - So what?
""You park your car in front of my house every morning." "So?""
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
so used as a noun:
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
so used as an abbreviation:
- Someone
- Significant other (romantic partner)
- Symphony orchestra
- The statistic reporting the number of strikeouts recorded by a pitcher; K
An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase. The term "Rd" is a commobly used abbreviation of "Road". Learn more →
so used as an adverb:
- Very.
"He is so good!" - To this or that extent.
"I need a piece of cloth so long." - In this or that manner.
"Place the napkin on the table just so." - Very much.
"But I so want to see the Queen when she visits our town!" - therefore
"He ate too much cake, so he got sick."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
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What type of word is so?
- Conjunction usage: Eat your broccoli so you can have dessert.
- Adjective usage: That is so.
- Adjective usage: You are responsible for this, is that not so?
- Adjective usage: Is he so?
- Interjection usage: So, let's go home.
- Interjection usage: So, what'll you have?
- Interjection usage: "You park your car in front of my house every morning." "So?"
- Adverb usage: He is so good!
- Adverb usage: It’s not so bad.
- Adverb usage: I need a piece of cloth so long.
- Adverb usage: Place the napkin on the table just so.
- Adverb usage: But I so want to see the Queen when she visits our town!
- Adverb usage: That is so not true!
- Adverb usage: He ate too much cake, so he got sick.
- Adverb usage: He wanted a book, so he went to the library.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of so are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of so, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).