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Grammar Frameworks

& Word Classes


Word Classes
• There are eight main word classes in
grammar.
• Some may be unfamiliar, but you have more
than likely come across most of them before.
• Can you think of any?
• Hint: nouns
Mini-Whiteboards
• Get yourself into pairs or a group of 3.
• At regular points you will need to try and
guess the words or give examples using
your mini whiteboards.
• This will help you to learn and remember
the word classes!
Nouns

Proper

Nouns Concrete

Common Abstract

Collective
Adjectives
• Adjectives describe nouns
• Adjectives can make comparisons:
• Comparatives
• e.g. bigger
• Superlatives
• e.g. biggest

Watch out for the irregulars!


Irregular Adjectives: Examples

Adjective Comparative Superlative

Good Better Best

Bad Worse Worst

Little Less Least

Far Further/Farther Furthest/farthest

Much More Most


Verbs
• Verbs refer to physical and mental actions
and tell you what the subject is doing.
• There are main verbs and auxiliary verbs.
1. A main verb gives the meaning
2. An auxiliary verb helps us understand the
meaning of the main verb by making the
tense clear, suggesting modality, creating
emphasis or creating questions.
Modal Auxiliaries
➢ Can
➢ Will
➢ Should These words
➢ Could
➢ May can only be
➢ Might
➢ Must
used with a
➢ Would main verb
➢ Shall
Adverbs
• Adverbs give more information about a
verb, for example ‘I ran fast’.
Pronouns
• Personal pronouns:
• I, me, we, us, you, he, she, it, him, her
• Possessive pronouns:
• mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, theirs
• Reflexive pronouns:
• myself, yourself, ourselves, himself, herself, itself,
themselves
• Demonstrative pronouns:
• pointing – this, that, these, those (to replace a noun)
• Indefinite pronouns:
• someone, no one, anything, everything, everyone
• Relative pronouns:
• that, who, whom, whose
Prepositions
• Used to explain relationships regarding
position, direction and time
• For example: to, at, on, opposite, towards,
into, past, before, during, after
Conjunctions
• Coordinating: and, but, or (also known as
connectives)
• Subordinating: connects a subordinate
clause to a main clause
• For example: although, because, unless,
until.
Determiners
• These are words that go before a noun:
• The definite article – the
• The indefinite article – a/an
• Possessive determiners – my, our, your,
their, its
• Demonstrative determiners – this, that,
these, those

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