Lexicology Flashcards
Nouns (N)
Nouns are words that are used to identify places, people and things. They can also be used to name qualities, ideas or concepts.
Pronouns (PN)
Pronouns are words that replace nouns and noun phrases within a sentence. E.g - I, me, my, mine, you, yours, he, him, his, she, her, hers it, it, its, we, us, our, ours
Verbs (V)
Verbs convey actions, states or occurrences – basically, what the subject is doing. Verbs are used to indicate time: past, present and future.
Auxiliary verbs (AUX)
An auxiliary verb supports the main verb of a sentence. These are usually used to construct grammatical tenses that could not otherwise be conveyed by inflectional morphemes on the main verb alone.
Modal Verbs (MOD)
Modal verbs are used to express the possibility, ability, intent, obligation or necessity of an action occurring.
Adjectives (ADJ)
Adjectives help to describe nouns and pronouns, providing attributive descriptions to provide extra information about them.
Adverbs (ADV)
Adverbs are words that help to describe, modify or qualify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs and whole phrases or sentences. These act to express elements such as time, place, manner, circumstance, cause and degree.
Prepositions (PREP)
A preposition is a word that expresses a relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word or element in a sentence.
Conjunctions (CONJ)
Conjunctions link words, phrases, clauses and sentences together. They allow us to form complex ideas and sentences and to demonstrate relationships between words or phrases from the same class.
Determiners (DET)
A determiner is a word placed in front of a noun that helps to clarify the noun, specify quantity or indicate possession.
Interjections (INTERJ)
An interjection is a word or phrase that expresses feelings, including some requests and demands.
