WORD CLASS IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR - ENGLISH GRAMMAR

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WORD CLASS IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR

 

In English grammar, a word class is a set of words that show similar formal properties, particularly distribution. The expression "word class" is like the more traditional term, grammatical form. It is additionally differently called grammatical category, lexical classification, and syntactic class.

They’re the building blocks that form every sentence ever uttered. The form classes also known as content words or open classes include:

·        Nouns: Name of a thing, a person, an animal, a place, or an idea.

 

·        Verbs: Shows an action or a state of being. It can show what someone is doing or did.

 

·        Adjectives: Describes, modifies or gives more information about a noun or pronoun.

 

·        Adverbs: Modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb. It tells how (often), where, when.

 

EXAMPLES

·        Deposit your money in the bank. (Noun)

·        She begins to bank the aircraft into the wind. (Verb)

·        Here you come to warm up by the fire. (Noun)

·        Boss will definitely fire him for missing meeting again. (Verb)

·        Everyone get lot pleasure after reading a motivational book. (Noun)

·        Book your destination for holiday plans soon to get the best deal. (Verb)

·        He loves super cars. (Adjective)

·        She is driving fast to get to catch train on time. (Adverb)

·        His hourly complaints have got to stop. (Adjective)

·        He reports about her hourly. (Adverb)

  

LIST OF VERBS, NOUNS, ADJECTIVES, AND ADVERBS

Verbs	Nouns	Adjectives	Adverbs
accept	acceptance	acceptable	acceptably
accuse	accusation	accusing	accusingly
act	act, action, activity	active	actively
add	addition	additional	additionally
admire	admiration	admirable	admirably
advise	advice	advisable	advisably
agree	agreement	agreeable	agreeably
anger	anger	angry	angrily
appreciate	appreciation	appreciable, appreciative	appreciatively
approve	approval	approving	approvingly
approximate	approximation	approximate	approximately
argue	argument	arguable, argumentative	arguably
attend	attention	attentive	attentively
attract	attraction	attractive	attractively
base	base, basis	basic	basically
beautify	beauty	beautiful	beautifully
believe	belief	believable	believably
bore	bore, boredom	bored, boring	boringly
breathe	breath	breathless	breathlessly
calm	calm, calmness	calm	calmly
care	care	careful, caring	carefully, carelessly
centralize	centre, centralization	central, centralized	centrally
characterize	character	characteristic	characteristically
circulate	circulation	circular
clean	cleanliness	clean	cleanly
clear	clarity, clearance	clear	clearly
collect	collection	collective	collectively
colour	colour	coloured	colourfully
comfort	comfort	comfortable	comfortably
compare	comparison	comparable, comparative	comparatively
compete	competition	competitive, uncompetitive	competitively
complete	completion	complete	completely
conclude	conclusion	conclusive	conclusively
condition	condition	conditional	conditionally,
confide	confidence	confident, confidential	confidently, confidentially
confuse	confusion	confused, confusing	confusingly
consider	consideration	considerable, considerate	considerably
continue	continuation, continuity	continual, continuous	continually, continuously
cool	cool, coolness	cool	coolly
correct	correction, correctness	correct, corrective	correctly
create	creation, creativity	creative	creatively
criticize	critic	critical	critically
accustom	custom	customary	customarily
dare	dare	daring	daringly
darken	dark, darkness	dark, darkened, darkening	darkly
deaden	death	dead, deadly, deathly	deadly, deathly
deceive	deceit, deception	deceitful, deceptive	deceptively
decide	decision	decided, decisive	decidedly, decisively
decorate	decoration	decorative	decoratively
deepen	deep, depth	deep, deepening	deeply
defend	defence	defensive	defensively
define	definition	definite	definitely
demonstrate	demonstration	demonstrable, demonstrative	demonstrably
depend	dependent, dependence	dependable	dependably
describe	description	describable	descriptively
destroy	destruction	destructive	destructively
determine	determination	determined	determinedly
differ, differentiate	difference	different	differently
direct	direction	direct	directly
disagree	disagreement	disagreeable	disagreeably
disappoint	disappointment	disappointed, disappointing	disappointingly
distance	distance	distant	distantly
disturb	disturbance	disturbed, disturbing	disturbingly
doubt	doubt	doubtful	doubtfully
dream	dream	dreamless, dreamy	dreamily
dress	dress	dressed, dressy	dressily
drink	drink, drunkenness	drunk, drunken	drunkenly
ease	ease, easiness	easy	easily
educate	education	educated, educational	educationally
effect	effect, effectiveness	effective	effectively
electrify	electricity	electric, electrical	electrically
embarrass	embarrassment	embarrassed, embarrassing	embarrassingly
emphasize	emphasis	emphatic	emphatically
encourage	encouragement	encouraged, encouraging	encouragingly
end	end	unending, endless	endlessly
energize	energy	energetic	energetically
enjoy	enjoyment	enjoyable	enjoyably
entertain	entertainment	entertaining	entertainingly
enthuse	enthusiasm	enthusiastic	enthusiastically
equalize	equality	equal	equally
excel	excellence	excellent	excellently
excite	excitement	excitable, excited, exciting	excitedly, excitingly
excuse	excuse	excusable	excusably
expect	expectation	expectant	expectantly,
expend	expenditure, expense	expensive	expensively
experiment	experiment	experimental	experimentally
explain	explanation	explanatory, explicable	inexplicably
explode	explosion	explosive	explosively
express	expression	expressive	expressively
familiarize	familiarity	familiar	familiarly
fashion	fashion	fashionable	fashionably
fear	fear	fearful, fearless, fearsome	fearfully, fearlessly
finalize	final	final	finally
fish	fish, fishing	fishy	fishily
fit	fit	fitted	fittingly
force	force	forceful, forcible	forcefully, forcibly
forget	forgetfulness	forgetful	forgetfully
formalize	formality	formal	formally
frequent	frequency	frequent	frequently
freshen	freshness	fresh	freshly
frighten	fright	frightened, frightening, frightful	frighteningly, frightfully
harden	hardship	hard	hard, hardly
harm	harm, harmfulness	harmful, harmless	harmfully, harmlessly
heat, overheat	heat	heated	heatedly
help	help	helpful, helpless	helpfully, helplessly
hope	hope	hopeful, hopeless	hopefully, hopelessly
hurry	hurry	hurried	hurriedly
hurt	hurt	hurtful	hurtfully
ice	ice	icy	icily
imagine	imagination	imaginable, imaginative	unimaginably, imaginatively
impress	impression	impressive	impressively
increase	increase	increased	increasingly
infect	infection	infectious	infectiously
insist	insistence	insistent	insistently
instruct	instruction	instructive	instructively
intend	intent, intention	intended, intentional,	intentionally
interest	interest	interested, disinterested, uninterested, interesting	interestingly
invent	invention	inventive	inventively
invite	invitation, invite	inviting	invitingly
know	knowledge	knowledgeable, known	knowingly, knowledgeably
enlarge	enlargement	large	largely
laugh	laugh	laughable	laughably
outlaw	law	lawful	lawfully
legalize	legality	legal	legally
lengthen	length	lengthy	lengthily
light, lighten	light	light	lightly
locate,	location	local	locally
love	love	lovable, lovely	lovingly
lower	low	low, lower	low
man	man, mankind	manly	mannishly, manfully
mark	mark	marked	markedly
match	match	matchless	matchlessly
materialize	material, materialism	immaterial, materialistic	materially
mean	meaning, meaningfulness	meaningful, meaningless	meaningfully, meaninglessly
measure	measurement	measurable	immeasurably
memorize	memory	memorable	memorably
mind	mind, mindlessness	mindless, mindful	mindlessly
minimize	minimum	minimal	minimally
mistake	mistake	mistaken	mistakenly
moralize	moral, morality	moral, moralistic	morally
mother	mother, motherhood	motherly
move	move, movement	movable, moving	movingly
murder	murder	murderous	murderously
name, rename	name	named, unnamed, nameless	namely
nationalize	nation, nationalization, nationality	national, nationalistic	nationally
naturalize	nature, naturalist, naturalization,	natural, naturalistic	naturally
necessitate	necessity	necessary	necessarily
need	need	needy	needlessly
unnerve	nerve, nervousness	nervous, nervy,	nervously, nervelessly
renew	news, newness	new, renewable	newly, anew
normalize	normality	normal	normally
notice	notice	noticeable	noticeably
obey	obedience	obedient	obediently
offend	offence	offensive	offensively
officiate	office	official	officially
open	openness	open	openly
operate, cooperate	operation	operational, operative	operationally
opt	option	optional	optionally
originate	origin	original	originally
pain	pain	painful, painless	painfully, painlessly
part, impart	part, partition	partial, impartial	partially, partly
pacify	peace	peaceful	peacefully
perfect	perfection	perfect	perfectly
personalize, personify	person, personality	personal, personalized	personally
persuade	persuasion, persuasiveness	persuasive	persuasively
play, outplay	play, playfulness	playful, playable	playfully
please	pleasure	pleasant, pleasurable	pleasantly, unpleasantly
point	point, pointlessness	pointed, pointless	pointlessly, pointedly
politicize	politics	political, politicized	politically
popularize	popularity	popular	popularly
power, empower	power	powerful, powerless	powerfully
prefer	preference	preferable, preferred	preferably
present	presence, presentation,	present, presentable	presently
privatize	privacy, privatization	private	privately
profit	profit, profitability	profitable	profitably
progress	progress, progression	progressive	progressively
provide	provision	provisional	provisionally
publicize	public, publicity	public	publicly
punish	punishment	punishable, punishing	punishingly
purify	purification, purity	pure	purely
question	question	questionable	questionably
quieted	quiet	quiet	quietly
race	race	racial	racially
realize	realism, reality	real, realistic	really, realistically
reason	reason	reasonable	reasonably
receive	receipt, reception,	receptive, reciprocal	reciprocally
recognize	recognition	recognizable	recognizably
reflect	reflection	reflective	reflectively
regret	regret	regrettable, regretful	regrettably, regretfully
regulate	regular, regularity	regular	regularly
relate	relation, relationship	related, relative	relatively
rely	reliability	reliable	reliably
remark	remark	remarkable	remarkably
repair	repair	irreparable	irreparably
repeat	repeat, repetition	repeated, repetitive	repeatedly, repetitively
report	report	reported	reportedly
respect	respect	respectable, respectful, respective	respectably, respectfully, respectively
respond	response, responsiveness	responsive	responsively
rest	rest	restless, rested, restful	restlessly
enrich	riches, richness	rich	richly
right	right, rightness,	righteous, rightful	right, rightly, rightfully
romanticize	romance, romanticism	romantic, romanticized	romantically
roughen	rough, roughness	rough	roughly
round	round	round, rounded	roundly
sadden	sadness	sad, saddened	sadly
satisfy	satisfaction	satisfactory,	satisfactorily
school	school, pre-school	scholastic	scholastically
search, research	search, research	searchable	searchingly
sense, sensitize	sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sensitiveness	sensible, sensitive, sensory	sensibly, sensitively
separate	separation	separable, separate	separately
shake	shake, shakiness	shaky	shakily
shape	shape	shapely, shaped	shapelessly
sharpen	sharpness	sharp	sharply
shock	shock	shocking	shockingly
shorten	short, shortness	short, shortest	shortly
shy	shyness	shy	shyly
sicken	sick, sickness	sick, sickly	sickeningly
signify	significance	significant	significantly
silence	silence	silent	silently
simplify	simplicity, simplification	simplistic	simply
single	single	singular	singly
sleep	sleep, sleepiness	asleep, sleepy	sleepily
socialize	society,	sociable, social	socially
soften	softness	soft	softly
solidify	solid, solidity	solid	solidly
specialize	specialty	special, specialized	specially
speed	speed, speediness	speedy	speedily
spot	spot	spotted, spotty	spotlessly
stand, withstand	stand, standstill	standing, outstanding	outstandingly
steepen	steepness	steep	steeply
stiffen	stiffness	stiff	stiffly
strengthen	strength	strong	strongly
strike	strike	striking	strikingly
structure	structure, structuralism	structural	structurally
study	student, study	studious	studiously
style	style, stylishness	stylish, stylistic	stylishly, stylistically
substantiate	substance	substantial, substantive	substantially
succeed	success, succession	successful, successive	successfully
suggest	suggestion	suggestive, suggestible	suggestively
support	support, supportiveness	supportive, supporting	supportively
suppose, presuppose	supposition	supposed	supposedly
surprise	surprise	surprised, surprising	surprisingly
suspect	suspect, suspicion	suspected, suspicious	suspiciously
sweeten	sweet, sweetness	sweet	sweetly
symbolize	symbol, symbolism	symbolic	symbolically
sympathize	sympathy	sympathetic	sympathetically