Saturday, July 10, 2010

WORD [type of word we use in English]

 Words are of two type:
    1.Content Word
    2.Function word

1. Content  word:
                 These which carry meaning by themselves.
                    1. Nouns
                    2. verbs
                    3. Adjectives
                    4. Adverbs

2. Function Word:
                 These which do not have any significant meaning in themselves and have to depend on the content words. (function word is fixed)
                    1. Determiners
                    2. Pronoun
                    3. Preposition
                    4. Conjunction
                    5. Auxiliary verbs
                    6. Interrogative

Determiners      -- a, an, the, this, that, some, any, all, many.

Pronoun           -- I, me, you, he, she, it, them, they, his, her, one, someone.

Prepositions     -- of, in, on, at, before, under, above, from, for, to, by.

Conjunction       -- and, or, but, if, when, because, that, so, though, then, besides, although.

Interrogative     -- who, what, which, whom, when, where, how.

Auxiliary verbs  -- am, is, are, was, were, has, have, had, do, does, did, can, could, may, 
                            might, will, would, shall, should, must, need, dare, ought to, used to.


  ELEMENT OF WORD STRUCTURE
The structure of a word has two elements:
  1. steam
  2. affix

Affix are of two types:
  1. suffix (fitness, singing legally) [in the end]
  2. prefix (unknown, illegal) [in the beginning]