word classes
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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