word classes

WORD CLASSES

March 22nd,2011

Meeting 2

Word classes

• Noun• Adjectives• Adverbs• Verbs• Preposition• Conjunction• Articles• Numeral• Quantifiers• Interjections

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

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

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

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

Preposition

• Simple

• Complex

At in before ofBetween on by sinceDespite until during upFrom with after near

According to in front of as toIn spite of because of in terms ofBy means of on account of by virtue ofOn behalf of in accordance with out ofIn addition to with regard to

Conjunction• Simple Complex

• Coordinators

• Subordinators

And ifBecause sinceBefore thatBut while

As if in caseAs long as so thatAs soon as now thatAs though insofar as

And but or for

That since if whetherIn case as though

Article

• Definite the• Indefinite a / an

Numeral

• Cardinal number– About

– Almost

– Approximately

– Nearly

– Over

• Ordinal number

Pronouns

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

Quantifiers• As the head of noun phrase

• As the head of noun phrase and determiner

• As the determiner

Someone somebody somethingAnyone anybody anythingEveryone everybody everythingNoone nobody nothing

none

Some, much, many, most any each all Little, less, least both Either neither Few, fewer, fewer enough several

every no

Interjection

Ah blimey hey ouchYippee aha damn ohTut wow blast ehOho hmm err ugh