English Language: Lexis- Word classes

Lexis- Word classes

E.G. The Team from Italy were Driving in a Hotel.

Team, Italy, Driving and Hotel are all content words- these are words that give the meaning to the sentences they don't give it any structure but do set the subject and context to the sentence.

Nouns- naming words like people places, objects, materials, animals, ideas, feelings and qualities.
Verbs- "doing words"- actions, events, states, mental processes and sensations.
Adjectives- "Describing words"- these are used to modify the noun- the use of these can suggest a lot about the opinion of the writer/ speaker.
Adverbs- These describe verbs (see above)- words that describe how or the time of the action- they modify adjectives and other adverbs- such as discourse markers like: However, Luckily, Furthermore.

Pronouns- Personal Pronouns like: I, Me, You- Other pronouns include: It, This, That.
Prepositions- Placed in front of something- noun- links the noun to the rest of the sentence, showing relationships e.g. it, on, over, under, a long, until, by, with and of.
Conjunctions- And, But, Or, If, Because, When, Although and Until.
Determiners- Determine the noun you are talking about- e.g. A dog, The dog, My dog or Any dog.
auxiliaries- Definite article or indefinite article e.g. a/an- used to show outcome or ability- they're also used for grammatical reasons e.g. "She was writing a novel" instead of "She is writing a novel" or "She will be writing a novel".

Model auxiliaries: Must, May, Might and Can. Main auxiliary verbs: Do, Does, Did, Have, Had, Has, Be, Am, Are, Is, Was and Were.