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Explain in your own understanding the definition of Word
The word is a spelling of these sounds, it can be of a letter or of several letters that are separated by white spaces.
List down the classes of word and give 5 examples each.
As we saw in the subject, there are 8 classes of words that are part of the discourse of English grammar, which are:
Noun
- Country
- Bad
- Door
- House
- Planet
- Plant
- School
Pronoun
- I
- You
- We
- Its
- He
- She
- Yourself
- Mine
- Them
Verb
- To know
- To go
- To come
- To see
- To think
Adjective
- Thin
- Fast
- Some
- Any
- These
- Those
Adverb
- Now
- Early
- Late
- Soon
- Already
Preposition
- Above
- At
- Behind
- Beside
- Near
- By
- In
- On
Conjunction
- And
- But
- However
- Or
- So
- Then
- Therefore
Interjection
- Yeah!
- Hey!
- Argh!
- Wow!
- Oh!
Explain the two classes of word.
Open classes refers to content words, they are part of the discourse, with words that change easily, there are a large number of open-class words, among these are compound and combined words, open class words include nouns, lexical verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
Closed class refers to function words, they are parts of speech, they are limited in numbers and they act as a guide for a good sentence structure, they are not changed. Closed classes in English include pronouns, determiners, conjunctions, and prepositions.
Research on open classes and list about 5 examples of invented words in the field of Computer technology.
- Boot
- Cybernetics
- Backup
- File
- Bandwidth
- Clipboard
- Inbox
- Network
Research on closed classes and give 5 examples as well. Try and explore more.
- Or
- This what
- But
- Them
- You
- Could
- For
- More than
- Less than