Words are fundamental units in every sentence, so we will begin by looking at these. Consider the words in the following sentence: my brother drives a big car We can tell almost instinctively that brother and car are the same type of word, and also that brother and drives are different types of words. By this we mean that brother and car belong to the same word class. Similarly, when we recognise that brother and drives are different types, we mean that they belong to different word classes. We recognise seven MAJOR word classes:. | 1 An Introduction to Word Criteria for Word The form or shape of a The position or environment of a word in a Open and Closed Word 2 Characteristics of Common and Proper Count and Non-count Other Types of The Gender of 3 Numerals and Pronouns and The Ordering of Central 4 The Base Past and Present The Infinitive More Verb Forms -ing and Finite and Nonfinite Auxiliary Auxiliary Verb The NICE Properties of Tense and 5 Characteristics of Attributive and Predicative Inherent and Non-inherent Stative and Dynamic Nominal Adjectives and Participial The Ordering of 6 Formal Characteristics of Adverbs and Circumstantial Additives Exclusives and Wh- Sentence 7 Complex Marginal 8 Coordination False 9 Minor word Formulaic Existential Uses of 10 Introduces Defining a The Basic Structure of a More Phrase Noun Phrase NP .63 Verb Phrase VP .64 Adjective Phrase AP .64 Adverb Phrase AdvP .65 Prepositional Phrase PP .65 Phrases within 11 Clauses and The Clause
