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Otto Jespersen, a Danish linguist, proposed a system for categorizing parts of speech in English based on their syntactic functions rather than their traditional definitions. According to Jespersen, there are three main categories of parts of speech in English:

1. Substantives: These are words that can function as the subject or object of a sentence. This category includes nouns, pronouns, and gerunds.

2. Attributives: These are words that modify substantives. This category includes adjectives and determiners.

3. Connectives: These are words that connect or relate substantives and attributives. This category includes verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

Jespersen's approach focuses on how words are used in sentences rather than their traditional definitions. This system provides a more practical and functional way of understanding the parts of speech in English.