word class/morphology Flashcards
Used to represent a subject, Place, things or concepts, Can be concrete or abstract
Noun
Physical things that can be seen, touched, heard, or seen
Concrete Noun
Non-Physical things, for example (Justice,kindness,philosophy)
Abstract Noun
Specific things- ((form of noun)
Proper Noun
Represent Action
Verbs
Be, is, are, we’re, was are examples of what?
Verb tense
Describe a verb, or even modify it, commonly known as words ending with “ly”
Adverb
Modify, Describe a noun, add color, size, or age’
Examples: (Ancient, Big ,Beautifull)
Adjective
Lexical words- noun, verb, adjective, and adverbs
Form
Structure Words- Auxillary, Preposition, pronoun, determiners, conjunctions, and interjections.
Function
Type of verb that assist sentence main verb to create advance tenses, also include modal verbs like “can” or “should”.
Example: Will,could,might,must.
Auxillary
Relationship between words, always use a noun, when used to describe a verb it can explain when or where.
Preposition
Substitute to other nouns for not repetitive writing
Example: I, they, who, yourself
Pronouns
Come before a noun, explain which noun you are reffering to the nouns quantity.
Example: The,my,all,those,few.
Determiners
Connecting the words
Examples: But, If, so,because
Conjuctions
Emotion often with exclamation point.
Example: gee, ouch, yikes, oof
Interjections
Attached morphemes
Bound
Type of free morpheme, noun, verb, and adjectives
Content Words
Type of free morpheme, can be article,demonstrative,auxillary, quantifiers,prepositions, pronoun and conjunction. (Grammatical Connection)
Function Words
Type of Bound Morpheme, Changes category when attached also the meaning, can be suffix.
Derivational
Prefix and Suffix
Bound Morphemes
Can change the meaning or category
Derivational
Change the form but not the lexical category or meaning.
Inflectional
