Language Terminology

Nouns
1. Proper
  1. George
2. Common
  1. Table
3. Collective
  1. Plural
  2. Georges
4. Abstract
  1. Feeling
  2. Emotion
  3. Love
5. Concrete
  1. Physical
  2. Door
  3. George
Pronouns
1. Third person
  1. He
  2. She
2. Reflexive
  1. Myself
  2. Themselves
3. Possesive
  1. Our
  2. Mine
  3. Theirs
4. First Person
  1. Me
5. Indefinite
  1. What
  2. It
6. Demonstrative
  1. It
7. Second person
  1. You
8. Interrogative
  1. Who
  2. Whom
  3. Interrogates movement
Verbs
1. Stative
  1. Where you are
  2. Be
  3. Is
2. Primary
  1. Have
  2. Do
  3. Be
3. Dynamic
  1. Sprint
  2. Physical
4. Active
  1. Done to someone
  2. Gentler
5. Passive
  1. Done to you
  2. Feelings
6. Modal
  1. Introduce a possibility
  2. May
  3. Might
  4. Could
7. Auxilaries
  1. Helper verbs
  2. Have had
    1. Both verbs
Adverbs
1. Describe a verb
2. Can modify
  1. Verbs
  2. Adjectives
  3. Other adverbs
Determiners
1. Numbers
2. Indefinite
  1. A
  2. An
3. Definite
  1. The
4. Amount of stuff
Conjunctions
1. Co-ordinating
  1. Punctuation
  2. And
  3. Also
  4. Plus
  5. Moreover
2. Subordinating
  1. But
  2. Although
  3. However
  4. 2nd part in background
Prepositions
1. Before stuff
2. Comparison
  1. Same
3. Direction
  1. Left
  2. Sideways
  3. Anticlockwise
4. Source
  1. To
  2. From
5. Purpose
  1. As
  2. For
6. Place
  1. Over
  2. Up
  3. There
7. Time
  1. Before
  2. Tonight
  3. Later
  4. Soon
Adjectives
1. Comparative
  1. Faster
  2. Better
  3. Stronger
  4. Weaker
2. Superlative
  1. Extremity
  2. Best
  3. Worst
  4. Lowest
  5. Highest
3. Predicative
4. Attributive

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