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 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 Pronoun .13 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 2 Participial The Ordering of 6 Formal Characteristics of Adverbs and Circumstantial Additives Exclusives and Wh- Sentence 7 Complex Marginal 8 This shows that items linked by a subordinator have a very specific relationship to each other -- it is a relationship of syntactic dependency. There is no syntactic dependency in the relationship between conjoins. We will further explore this topic when we look at the grammar of Coordination False 9 Minor word Formulaic Existential In this example the first there is existential there and the .
