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We Recognize eight major word classes: 
 
WORD CLASSES DEFINITION EXAMPLES 
Verbs 
Any action (walk), occurrence (happen), 
or state of being (be) 
Action (walk), occurrence 
(happen), or state of being (be) 
Nouns Any abstract or concrete entity; a person, 
place, thing, idea, or quality 
A person (police officer, 
Michael), place (coastline, 
London), thing (necktie, 
television), idea (happiness), or 
quality (bravery) 
Determiners (Demonstrative 
pronouns, indefinite 
pronouns, articles, 
possessive adjectives, 
numerals) 
 
A word which co-occurs with a noun to 
show meanings such as number, quantity 
or identity. 
A, an, my, some, the, one, 
thousand, this, that, my, your, 
both, who, when, why. 
Adjectives An adjective is a modifier. Usually it 
modifies, or makes more exact, the 
meaning of a noun or pronoun. 
Big, foolish, happy, talented, 
tidy 
Adverbs Any qualifier of an adjective, verb, clause, 
sentence, or other adverb 
Happily, recently, soon, then, 
there, yes, no (as answers) 
Pronouns (personal 
pronouns, indefinite 
pronouns, possessive, 
relative, demonstrative and 
interrogative pronouns) 
A pronoun is a substitute for a noun or a 
noun phrase 
He, she, some, any, all, mine, 
yours, which, who, that. 
Interjections 
 
Any emotional greeting (or "exclamation") Eh, ugh, phew, well 
Prepositions A preposition is a connector that 
introduces a prepositional phrase. It 
usually connects a noun or noun phrase 
to the part of the sentence modified by 
the whole prepositional phrase, and it 
shows the relation between the two. 
At, in, of, over, with 
Conjunctions A conjunction is a connector. A 
coordinate conjunction connects words or 
groups of words that are grammatically 
the same. A subordinate conjunction 
connects a subordinate, or dependent, 
clause to a main clause. 
And, because, but, if, or