Open word classes:
1. Adjectives - it modify nouns and pronouns by providing information that answers any of the following questions about the noun or pronoun: What kind? Which one? How many? or How much?
Ex. Hot onions (What kind of onions?), That book (Which book?).
2. Adverbs - is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another verb.-it describes or make other words more specific.
Ex. Adverbs Modifying verbs. (Where) The balloon floated up. (When) Your letter arrived today.
Ex. Adverbs Modifying Adjectives. (To What Extent) I extremely hungry.
Ex. Adverbs Modifying Adverbs. (To What Extent) He drives rather carefully.
3. Interjection – is a word that expresses feeling or emotion and functions independently of a sentence.
Ex. Whew! I’m glad that’s over. Hey!, Wait a minute!...
4. Nouns – is the name of a person, place, of thing. But also as concrete or abstract.
Concrete – names something you can see, touch, taste, hear, or smell.
Abstract – names something you cannot perceive through any of your five senses.
Ex. Concrete. Mother, fabric, chocolate, music, perfume.
Ex. Abstract. Hope, improvement, evil, desperation, cooperation.
5. Verbs (except auxiliary verb) – is a word or group of word that expresses time while showing an action, a condition, or the fact that something exists.
Ex. I wrote song today.
Closed word classes:
Auxiliary verbs
clitics
Coverbs
Conjunction
Determiners (articles, quantifier, demonstrative adjectives, and possessive adj.)
Particles
Measure words
Ad position (preposition, postposition, and circumpostions)
Proverbs
Pronouns
Constraction
Cardinal numbers
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Parts Of Speech
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