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Lexical word classes - Coggle Diagram
Lexical word classes
Noun
two subclasses of noun:
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‘countable’ nouns.
can occur in combination with numbers, with the indefinite article, a, and can be pluralized by the addition of the {plural} morpheme.
Verb
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present-tense, third-person singular mor-
pheme, which is written as -s in most cases;
past tense morpheme, written as -ed in all regular verbs in English;
the progressive form, which is written as -ing for all English verbs.
Lexical verbs that do not need an auxiliary verb in order to function in
main clauses are known as finite forms.
intransitive verb
will not be found with an object, and thus will occur
in subject and predicator structures: I’m dying.
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Adjective
gradable adjectives
form comparative and superlative forms either by the addition of morphemes, or by the insert adverb
(non-gradable)
Example: more Chinese, more wooden
Adverb
very, suddenly, now, quietly, then, really
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The adverbs ending in -ly (entirely, wrongly, naively)
but there are also adverbs, such as outside, instead, round and perhaps, and the
prepositional phrases include by my house and within the hour.
Lexical words are those which contain the main semantic information in a text, and they fall into the four main lexical word classes: noun, verb, adjective and adverb.