Word Classes Notes
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- Created on: 01-04-20 14:42
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Word Classes
Nouns and Pronouns:
- Nouns – names of objects, feelings, attitudes, people or places
- Abstract – refers to feelings, something you cant touch
- Concrete – objects with physical existence
- Proper – names of people or places ‘London, Paris’
- Noun phrases – short sentences with the main focus being a noun
- ‘The times, the noisy party’
- Modifier
- Headword
Prepositions:
- Prepositional phrases are a word that is placed before a noun or a noun phrase
- ‘In’ ‘on’ ‘at’ ‘from’
- ‘In favour of’ ‘in spite of’
Adverbs:
- Words that modify a verb
- It describes the verb
- ‘I cried sadly’
- ‘I’ll go to a party soon’
- Adverbial Clauses
- 'He lived a celebrity life, with a sense of peace’
Pronouns:
- Replace nouns, can be used to refer forwards or backwards to a noun
- Person – I; you; she; they
- Possessive – my; his; our
- Reflexive – myself; himself, themselves
- Demonstrative – these; this; that
- Relative – which; when;…
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