Lexicology Flashcards
Noun
a word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things, or to name a particular one of these .
Verb
a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
Adjectives
a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.
Adverbs
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ).
Interjections
a sudden or brief utterance that is usually that is usually not part of syntactic structure
Prepostion
closed class word that denotes a positional relationship between nouns
Pronoun
closed class word that replaces/ stands for a noun
Subordinating Conjunction
Coordinating Conjunction
Determiner
Auxiliary Verb
The 9 Modal Verbs
Should Would Could Must May Shall Will Might Can