Word classes

1. WORD
CLASSES
March 22
nd
,2011
Meeting 2

2. Word classes
•Noun
•Adjectives
•Adverbs
•Verbs
•Preposition
•Conjunction
•Articles
•Numeral
•Quantifiers
•Interjections

3. NOUN
•Common Noun
–Countable and Uncountable
•Proper Noun
–Name of person, city, country, etc
-Age - ance -ation
-Dom - ee -ence
-Ess - atte - hood
-Ism - ist -ment
-Ness - ship

4. Adjective
•Comparison
•Attributive adjective
–The green door  SASCOMP
•Predicative adjective
–The door is green  subject attribute
–We painted the door green object attribute
-Able/ ible - ful - ic/ical
-Ish - ive - less
-like

5. Adverb
•Time  The plane arrived yesterday
•Place  Peter is waiting outside
•Manner  The soldiers were punished cruelly
•Degree  He absolutely refused to come
•To express the attitude
–Honestly, I don’t have any money left
•A linking between one sentence to another
–She is very kind-hearted. However, she is not a fool
-ly - ward(s) - wise

6. Verbs
•Auxiliary Verbs
–Modal Auxiliary
•Can, may, must, shall, will, may, need, dare, used to, ought to
–Primary Auxiliary
•Do, have, be
•Lexical Verbs
–Complement  Intransitive & Transitive
–One-word/multi-word
-en - ify - ize/ise

7. Preposition
•Simple
•Complex
At in before of
Between on by since
Despite until during up
From with after near
According to in front of as to
In spite of because of in terms of
By means of on account of by virtue of
On behalf of in accordance without of
In addition to with regard to

8. Conjunction
•Simple Complex
•Coordinators
•Subordinators
And if
Because since
Before that
But while
As if in case
As long as so that
As soon as now that
As though insofar as
And but or for
That since if whether
In case as though

9. Article
•Definitethe
•Indefinite a / an

10. Numeral
•Cardinal number
–About
–Almost
–Approximately
–Nearly
–Over
•Ordinal number

11. Pronouns
•Personal pronoun
•Reflexive pronoun
•Demonstrative pronoun
•Possessive pronoun
•Relative pronoun
•Interrogative pronoun
•Reciprocal pronoun
•So & one

12. Quantifiers
•As the head of noun phrase
•As the head of noun phrase and determiner
•As the determiner
Someone somebody something
Anyone anybody anything
Everyone everybody everything
Noone nobody nothing
none
Some, much, many, most any each all

Little, less, least both Either neither

Few, fewer, fewer enough several
every no

13. Interjection
Ah blimey hey ouch
Yippee aha damn oh
Tut wow blast eh
Oho hmm err ugh