Word Classes

What are the different word classes?

A word class is a part of speech, or category of words of similar form or function.

 nouns –  i.e. flower

 pronouns – i.e. mine
 determiners – i.e. their
 verbs – i.e. follow
 prepositions – i.e. at
 affixes (prefixes and suffixes) – i.e. anti-
 conjunctions – i.e. and
 adjectives –  i.e. happy
 adverbs – i.e. happily
 Tenses

A tense is a set of forms taken by a verb to show the time (and at times the continuance or completeness too) of the action in
relation to the time of the utterance.

What are the different tenses?

 present simple – i.e. I learn

 present continuous (or present progressive) – i.e. I am learning
 present perfect – i.e. I have learned
 present perfect continuous (or present perfect progressive) – i.e. I  have been learning
 simple past – i.e. I learned
 past continuous – i.e. I was learning
 past perfect – i.e. I had learned
 past perfect continuous (or past perfect progressive) – i.e. I had been learning
 simple future – i.e. I will learn
 simple conditional – i.e. I would learn
 conditional perfect – i.e. I would have learned
 conditional perfect continuous (or conditional perfect progressive) – i.e. I would have been learning
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