Theoretical grammar пәні бойынша

e.g. Cash/money/the money/the big money talks.

An adjective is usually an adjectival but it may be a nominal, etc.:

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  The poor boy became president. The poor can afford no vacations.
  

The strong points: 1) emphasis on inflexions as indicators of parts of speech 2) the idea of heterogeneity of word-classes.
Function. Ch.Fries: All the instances of one part of speech are the ‘same’ only in the sense that in the structural patterns of English each has the same functional significance. He classifies words using 3 typical sentences which he calls frames:

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  Frame A – The concert was good (always).
  
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  Frame B – The clerk remembered the tax (suddenly).
  
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  Frame C – The team went there.
  

Fries establishes 4 classes (class 1, 2, 3 4) and 15 groups of structural words (group A, B, C, D, E, etc.) – e.g. group A comprises all the words which may occupy the position of the: no, your, their, both, few, much, John’s, our, four, twenty, etc.
Main drawbacks: 

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  morphological characteristics are ignored completely;
  
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  syntactical characteristics are not always taken into consideration (e.g. modal verbs are isolated from Class 2);
  
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  the classes are heterogeneous (one and the same word may happen to be in different classes and groups).
  

Strong points:

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  special accent is laid on distribution of words and their syntactic valency (another name for the classification is syntactico-distributional);
  
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  his materials comprise 250 000 word entries which provide information on frequency of occurrence.
  

Russian linguistic tradition: meaning, form and function. e.g. table – a noun because 1) it is the name of a thing (specific meaning), 2) it has forms of number and case and 3) it can function as a subject or an object in a sentence.