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Word Class Note

The document outlines the various word classes in grammar, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, determiners, and interjections. It further categorizes nouns into common, proper, collective, abstract, concrete, countable, uncountable, and compound nouns, and adverbs into types such as time, place, manner, degree, frequency, and conjunctive adverbs. Additionally, it details types of pronouns and determiners, providing examples for each category.

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Word Class Note

The document outlines the various word classes in grammar, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, determiners, and interjections. It further categorizes nouns into common, proper, collective, abstract, concrete, countable, uncountable, and compound nouns, and adverbs into types such as time, place, manner, degree, frequency, and conjunctive adverbs. Additionally, it details types of pronouns and determiners, providing examples for each category.

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Word Class

*Every word belongs to the word class, which summarizes the ways in
which it can be used in grammar.

*The word class divides as follows:


● Nouns
● Verbs
● Adjectives
● Adverbs
● Pronouns
● Conjunctions
● Prepositions
● Determines
● Interjections

1.Nouns - The words used for people,places,ideas or things.


Ex: Doctor, Rome, Peace, Cat, Table.

2.Verbs - The words used to describe an action or state.


Ex: run, work, study

3.Adjectives - The words used to describe nouns.


Ex: kind, clever, pretty

4.Adverbs - The words used to modify verbs, adjectives or another


adverb itself.
Ex: quickly, inside, now, almost, sometimes

5.Pronouns- The words used to take the place of Nouns.


Ex: you, his, mine, this, that
6.Conjunctions - The words used to connect words, phrases and
clauses.
Ex: but, since, yet, unless, although

7.Prepositions - The words used before a noun or pronoun to show


direction, location or time.
Ex: after, down, near, around

8.Determiners - The words placed before a noun to provide


information such as quantity, ownership,specificity.
Ex: a, an, the, this, my, few

9.Interjections - The words that bear no grammatical connection with


sentences in which they are used.
Ex: ouch, yikes, wow
Types of Nouns

● Common Nouns
A noun that refers to a general person, place, things or ideas.

● Proper Nouns
A noun that refers to a specific person, place or things and its first
letter is always capitalized.
Ex: John, London

● Collective Nouns
A noun that refers to a group of people, animals or things.
Ex: family, herd, flock

● Abstract Nouns
A noun that refers to a concept or ideas that cannot be physically seen
or touched.
Ex: love, peace, joy

● Concrete Nouns
A noun that refers to something that can be physically seen, touched
or measured.
Ex: tree, house, rock

● Countable Nouns
A noun that can be counted.
Ex: apple, chair, dog

● Uncountable Nouns
A noun that cannot be counted.
Ex: water, sugar, sand
● Compound Nouns
A noun that is made up of two or more words.
Ex: toothbrush, basketball

Types of Adverbs

● Adverbs of Time
Tells when an action happens.
Ex: now,soon,yesterday

● Adverbs of Place
Tells us where an action happens.
Ex: here, there, everywhere

● Adverbs of Manner
Tells us how can action happens.
Ex: softly, gently, quickly
● Adverbs of Degree
Tells us the intensity or extent of an action.
Ex: very, almost, rather

● Adverbs of Frequency
Tells us how often an action takes place.
Ex: always, rarely, often

● Conjunctive Adverbs
Used to connect two independent clauses.
Ex: however, because, therefore
Types of Pronouns

● Possessive Pronoun
Used to express ownership.
Ex: mine, yours, his

● Personal Pronoun
Used to refer to people, sometimes animals.
Ex: I, you, she, it, they

● Relative Pronoun
Used to connect dependent clauses to independent clauses.
Ex: whom, that, which
● Interrogative Pronouns
Used to ask questions.
Ex: what, whom, who, which, whose

● Demonstrative Pronouns
Used to point to specific things.
Ex: this, that, these, those

Types of Determiners

● Articles - a, an, the

● Demonstratives - this, that, these, those

● Possessives - my, yours, his, hers

● Quantifiers - some, many, few

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