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1. Nouns
a. Common (person, chair)
b. Proper (Sarah, Australia)
c. Compound (post office, bus driver)
d. Abstract (happiness, intelligence)
e. Collective (family, herd)
i. Countable ? people, creatures, things that can be counted preceded by a/an/the and can be used in the plural (a car, the pig, eggs)
ii. Uncountable ? things that can?t be counted, can?t have a/an in front of them and can?t be used in plural (music, advice, rice, bread, information)
2. Adjectives
a. Comparatives (+ er: taller, younger)
b. Superlatives (+ est: tallest, youngest)
3. Articles
a. Indefinite (a and an)
b. Definite (the)
4. Verbs
a. Transitive (directly followed by an object: I play hockey)
b. Intransitive (cannot be followed by an object: I went to hockey)
c. Infinitives (Refers to the verb as a whole: I went to play)
i. Base form (Regular: stop Irregular: begin)
ii. Past simple (Regular: stopped Irregular: began)
iii. Past participle (Regular: stopped Irregular: begun)
iv. Present participle (Regular: stopping Irregular: beginning)
** Participle = a verb that can be used as an adjective?
5. Adverbs
a. After the object of a transitive verb (he ate his lunch quickly)
b. Immediately after an intransitive verb (he was sleeping deeply)
c. Multiple: place ? manner ? time (he was sleeping in bed, deeply, last night)
6. Gerunds (the ?ing form of a verb used as a noun)
a. Used as a subject of the sentence (Playing tennis is fun)
b. Used as an object of the verb (We enjoy playing tennis)
7. Pronouns (used instead of more precise nouns/phrases)
a. Personal
i. As a subject (I, he, she, it, we, you, they ? they have a car)
ii. As an object (me, him, her, it, us, you, them ? it belongs to them)
b. Possessive
i. (Mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs, its)
c. Reflexive
i. (myself, yourself, himself, herself, itseld, ourselves, yourselves, themselves)
d. Relative
i. Used to connect clauses in a sentence (who, which, that, whose)
8. Prepositions/Conjunctions
a. Prepositions (relationship between a noun and some other word in the sentence)
i. Time/Date (at, on, Before, by, in, from, since, until, about)
ii. Movement (from, to, into, by, through, over)
iii. Place/position (in, at, on, above, beneath, near)
iv. Others (as, with)
b. Conjunctions
i. Join words of the same class: pairs of nouns, adjectives, phrases
(and, but, or, nor, yet).
ii. Join clauses of sentences
(as, before, since, until, when , because, although, unless, so)
