All words belong to a word class. It’s that word’s type: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners and exclamations. These are all word classes. Consider the ...

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or concepts, ...

Analysis: Here's the reason why you've problems with words like 'equipment', 'occurrence' or 'accomodation' ...

We propose an account of linking patterns that does away with intermediary mechanisms such as thematic or actor/undergoer hierarchies. Instead, constraints on word classes, defined by both syntactic ...

Rising numbers of schools are introducing children to nonsense words such as "voo", "spron" and "terg" as part of a drive towards back-to-basics reading methods, it has emerged. Schools are teaching ...