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"Worth" is classified as an Adjective and used as one. (Although it also acts differently from all of the Adjectives.) In your particular example, "worth" is used as an Adjective but acts as a Preposition. That's why it's normally followed by a Noun, a Pronoun or a Gerund. Ex. It's worth a try. It's worth it. It's worth trying.
Is this worth more than that? My pen is worth only fifty cents. "Worth" in this case is an adjective meaning "valued at." My pen is valued at only fifty cents. The question, is it worth it is really asking for the link, or in other words, the defined value. Is this worth ten dollars? Is this worth the effort it would take to do it?
Five thousand dollars worth of equipment does not a professional photographer make. Apart from the other questionable syntax in this over-stylized sentence, what occurred to me, courtesy of Microsoft auto correct, was that "thousand dollars" may need to be in possessive form, though it's not immediately occurring to me why this would be.
The first example, "it is worth mentioning that", is acceptable. The second, "it is worth to mention that", is incorrect. One might correct it by saying: It is worth it to mention that... Though this is a very awkward construction. A better version might be: It is worthwhile to mention that...
3. The cost of an item defines the specific price at which it is sold. It is objective and factual. The sticker price lists the "cost." The worth of an item is a more intangible sense of value. It may or may not align with the cost. Worth generally aligns with cost when the price is well established and generally agreed upon.
So, "two cents worth" is a usually unsolicited opinion that either, under one possible meaning, is humbly put forth as not worth a lot, or else, under another possible meaning, might indicate that it is at least worth more than the typical opinion - one of these two.
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL) has a lot to say about worth. It is a little like an adjective and a little like a preposition. I will argue both sides, for your entertainment. Worth is clearly a preposition, because: It requires a noun phrase after it. This is what prepositions are known for.
It means 'whether or not this is of any use/value'. For what it's worth, I'm very sorry I broke the window. means, for example, that it may not make any difference to the physical state of the window, but that hopefully the apology helps placate you. It's almost a kind of self-deprecation; it's saying 'No words of mine will be adequate, but ...
But 'it's worth' does mean 'it is worth', whereas 'its worth' is 'the worth of it'. So saying 'I would throw it away, for all it is worth' is different to saying 'I would hold on to it given the worth of it'. These sentences place quite a different value on the worth of the item in question. – WS2. Aug 14, 2014 at 14:30.
The specific phrase that "my two cents" seems to have arisen from is "[one's] two cents worth," an expression implying that the proffered opinion is not worth much as a marketable commodity. Although Ammer says that expressions of the form "put in [one's] two cents" go back to the late 1800s, the earliest such example I could find was from 1911.