five categories

Lexical meaning is dominant in content words, whereas grammatical meaning is dominant in function words, but in neither is grammatical meaning absent. Grammatical words include prepositions, modals and auxiliary verbs, pronouns, articles, conjunctions, and some adverbs.

(In this sentence, ‘will’ is auxiliary verb and ‘want’ is lexical verb as it shows main action of the subject). Ad. Examples of auxiliary verbs are like: may, be, was, is, had, has, have, could, would, can, did, might, etc. Examples of lexical verbs are like: run, laugh, see, think, want, act, pull, walk, go, make, etc …

Verbs are one of the two main parts of a sentence, along with nouns….Verbs

• Action verbs (which can be transitive or intransitive),
• Modal verbs (sometimes called helping verbs), and.
• Auxiliary verbs (sometimes called linking verbs).

Lexical word all have clear meanings that you could describe to someone. They’re also all nouns, which is one type of lexical word. FUNCTIONAL WORDS (GRAMMATICAL WORDS) Functional, or grammatical, words are the ones that it’s hard to define their meaning, but they have some grammatical function in the sentence.

These categories are also known as open class words because we add new words to these categories. Good, laptop, go, gone, nice, etc, all are lexical morphemes. FUNCTIONAL MORPHEMES: Free morphemes, which are also called grammatical morphemes, such as prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, articles, etc.

category in British English (ˈkætɪɡərɪ ) nounWord forms: plural -ries. 1. a class or group of things, people, etc, possessing some quality or qualities in common; a division in a system of classification.

There are four types of phrasal verbs:

• Intransitive, inseparable, and without an object. Come back.
• Transitive, separable, and with an object. Get it back.
• Transitive, inseparable, and with an object. Pick up that dress.
• Transitive, with two inseparable particles. Look it up.

Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech (e.g. noun, verb, preposition, etc.) are syntactic categories. In phrase structure grammars, the phrasal categories (e.g. noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, etc.) are also syntactic categories.

Syntactic elements of a sentence are made up of words, phrases, or clauses acting in one of the following: predicative words, independent subjects, independent objects, subject or object modifiers, predicate modifiers, predicate complements, or sentence connectives.

The significant point, and one “which has not been made at all clear in the literature of English,” is that syntactic words are normal syntactic structures converted to occasional or repeated use in environments where one might normally expect to find a one-base or two-base word.

the module of the grammar that accounts for the structure (= the form) of grammatically acceptable sentences. Sentence. the “highest” (i.e., largest) syntactic unit. the lowest (i.e., smallest) syntactic units are words.