Types of Words
words that are used
by a particular group of people
a new
word that is formed by removing a part of another word.
In English, ‘burgle’ is a back formation from ‘burglar’.
a word
that has become very popular, especially a word
relating to a particular activity or subject
a word
used for representing a particular idea,
usually one that is popular for a short time
a word that is used to join other
words, phrases, clauses, and sentences, for example ’and’, ’because’, and ’but’
linguistics a word
made by leaving out a letter or letters of a word
or words. For example ‘can’t’ is a contraction of the word
‘cannot’.
a name used
for a person who lives
in or comes from a particular place, such as Parisian for a person from Paris
a word
formed by adding a diminutive suffix
a word
or phrase that is used
to indicate that one stage or topic
in a conversation has finished and a new
one is beginning. For example, ‘OK’ , ‘so’, ‘right’, and ‘anyway’ are often used
as discourse markers. In the sentence ‘Anyway, let’s
think about the cost
of all this’, ‘anyway’ signals that one stage of the conversation is over. Discourse markers often indicate a change of speaker.
a word
in a language that has a different meaning from a similar-sounding word
in another language, for example the English ‘actual’ and the German ‘aktuell’. These similarities can confuse language learners and often cause errors.
a word
used mainly for expressing relationships between other words in a sentence, for example a conjunction like
‘but’ or a preposition like
‘with’
a word
that is spelled the same as another word
but has a different meaning and sometimes a different pronunciation
a word
with a more specific meaning than another more general word
of which it is an example. For example, ‘potato’ is a hyponym of ‘vegetable’.
a word
that represents the main
feature or idea
of something
a word
that is used wrongly but sounds like
the word that you should have used,
especially one that creates a funny
change of meaning
a word with only one syllable. The
words ‘yes’ and ‘no’ are monosyllables.
a word
that someone invents for a particular purpose or occasion
one of the main grammatical groups
that a particular word belongs to according to the way it is used in a
sentence, for example noun, verb, adjective, or adverb
a word that has more than two
syllables
a word
that combines the sound and meaning of two words, for example ‘smog’,
a combination of ‘smoke’ and ‘fog’
the part of a noun
group, adjective group, or verb
group that comes after the most important word
(the head) and adds
information about it. For example in the noun
group ‘the rules of the game’,
the prepositional phrase ‘of the game’
is a postmodifier.
the part of a noun
group, adjective group, or verb
group that comes before the most important word
(the head), and adds
information about it. For example in the noun
group ‘the best
people’, ‘the’ and ‘best’
are premodifiers.
a word
that includes the meaning of more specific words. For example, ‘vehicle’ is the superordinate of words such as ‘car’
and ‘truck’.
linguistics a different form, spelling, or pronunciation of a word
a part of speech
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