WORD CLASSES
• Every word belongs to a word class, which summarizes the ways in which it can be used
in grammar.
• There are four major word classes: verb, noun, adjective, adverb.
• There are five other word classes: determiners, preposition, pronoun, conjunction,
interjection.
VERB
• Verbs are action or state words
• e.g
like: run, work, study, be, seem.
NOUN
• Nouns are words for people, places or things
• e.g
mother, town, Rome, car, dog.
ADJECTIVE
• Adjectives are words that describe nouns,
• E.g
kind, clever, expensive.
ADVERB
• Adverbs are words that modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs,
• E.g
quickly, back, ever, badly, away generally, completely.
DETERMINER
• Determiners are a word that introduces a noun. It always comes before a noun, not after,
and it also comes before any other adjectives used to describe the noun.
• E.g. The bunny went home, or I ate the chocolate cookie for dessert.
PREPOSITION
• Prepositions are words usually in front of a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to
another word or element.
• E.g: after, down, near, of, plus, round.
PRONOUN
• Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns
• E.g: me, you, his, it, this, that, mine, yours, who, what.
CONJUNCTION
• Conjunctions are a word that joins words, phrases, clauses or sentences
• E.g:
• but, and, yet, or, because, nor, although, since, unless, while, where.
INTERJECTION
• Interjections have no grammatical value - words
• like: ah, hey, oh, ouch, um, well