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What are the eight main word classes?

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  • nouns
  • adjectives
  • verbs
  • adverbs
  • pronouns
  • conjunctions
  • prepositions
  • determiners.
1
Q

Within grammar there are how many main word classes?

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Eight.

2
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Nouns.

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Naming words.
There are four types:
- concrete
- abstract
- proper
- collective.
3
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Adjectives.

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Describe nouns and sometimes pronouns.

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Verbs.

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Doing words.
Verbs can be:
- dynamic (relate to actions)
- stative (express a state of being and though processes).
They can be:
- active ‘john hit the ball’
- passive ‘the ball was it (by john)’.
Verbs which support the main verbs are:
- primary auxiliary verbs (these alter the tense, can, have, is)
- modal auxiliary verbs (9) ‘can, could, will, would, must, may, might, shall, should and ought’
- ‘do’ is a dummy auxiliary.

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Adverbs.

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Describes verbs and sometimes adjectives and other adverbs too. Usually end in ‘ly’.

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Pronouns.

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Take the place of nouns ‘you, they, him, me, it’.

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Conjunctions.

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Connecting words.

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Prepositions.

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Define the relationship between words in time, space and direction. ‘Before, underneath and through’.

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Determiners.

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Give specific kinds of informations about a noun.