These are mostly the tags of the Penn Treebank tagset as used by LanguageTool, with examples. See "new tag" for tags introduced by LanguageTool. For more details, also see https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2003/ling001/penn_treebank_pos.html CC Coordinating conjunction: and, or, either, if, as, since, once, neither, less CD Cardinal number: one, two, twenty-four DT Determiner: a, an, all, many, much, any, some, this EX Existential there: there (no other words) FW Foreign word: infinitum, ipso IN Preposition/subordinate conjunction: except, inside, across, on, through, beyond, with, without JJ Adjective: beautiful, large, inspectable JJR Adjective, comparative: larger, quicker JJS Adjective, superlative: largest, quickest LS List item marker: not used by LanguageTool MD Modal: should, can, need, must, will, would NN Noun, singular count noun: bicycle, earthquake, zipper NNS Noun, plural: bicycles, earthquakes, zippers NN:U Nouns that are always uncountable #new tag - deviation from Penn, examples: admiration, Afrikaans NN:UN Nouns that might be used in the plural form and with an indefinite article, depending on their meaning #new tag - deviation from Penn, examples: establishment, wax, afternoon NNP Proper noun, singular: Denver, DORAN, Alexandra NNPS Proper noun, plural: Buddhists, Englishmen ORD Ordinal number: first, second, twenty-third, hundredth #New tag (experimental) since LT 4.9. Specified in disambiguation.xml. Examples: first, second, third, twenty-fourth, seventy-sixth PCT Punctuation mark: (`.,;:…!?`) #new tag - deviation from Penn PDT Predeterminer: all, sure, such, this, many, half, both, quite POS Possessive ending: s (as in: Peter's) PRP Personal pronoun: everyone, I, he, it, myself PRP$ Possessive pronoun: its, our, their, mine, my, her, his, your RB Adverb and negation: easily, sunnily, suddenly, specifically, not RBR Adverb, comparative: better, faster, quicker RBS Adverb, superlative: best, fastest, quickest RB_SENT Adverbial phrase including a comma that starts a sentence. #New tag (experimental) since LT 4.8. Specified in disambiguation.xml. Examples: However, Whenever possible, First of all, On the other hand, RP Particle: in, into, at, off, over, by, for, under SYM Symbol: rarely used by LanguageTool (e.g. for 'DD/MM/YYYY') TO to: to (no other words) UH Interjection: aargh, ahem, attention, congrats, help VB Verb, base form: eat, jump, believe, be, have VBD Verb, past tense: ate, jumped, believed VBG Verb, gerund/present participle: eating, jumping, believing VBN Verb, past participle: eaten, jumped, believed VBP Verb, non-3rd ps. sing. present: eat, jump, believe, am (as in 'I am'), are VBZ Verb, 3rd ps. sing. present: eats, jumps, believes, is, has WDT wh-determiner: that, whatever, what, whichever, which (no other words) WP wh-pronoun: that, whatever, what, whatsoever, whomsoever, whosoever, who, whom, whoever, whomever, which (no other words) WP$ Possessive wh-pronoun: whose (no other words) WRB wh-adverb: however, how, wherever, where, when, why `` Left open double quote , Comma '' Right close double quote . Sentence-final punctuation (in LanguageTool, use SENT_END instead) : Colon, semi-colon $ Dollar sign # Pound sign