Chapter 2: Word classes and phrases: the categories of English

For her birthday, my sister Susan has invited her best friends to the cinema
Hugh has a university degree in law but he works as an accountant.
Lexical words: nouns, lexical verbs, adjectives, adverbs. Grammatical words: pronouns, articles,
determiners, auxiliary verb, prepositions, conjunctions, subordinating.
The verb phrase
Primary auxiliary: be, have, do
Modal auxiliaries: must, can, could, will, would, may, might, shall, should and ought.