Word

Understanding a word is very important. It is because we speak or write by using words. Word can be defined as a group of letters, either vowels or consonants, which creates a certain meaning and functions. By grouping some words, we can make or build a sentence or a phrase or a clause. However, we can not group it all at the same time without knowing how to build it into a full sentence. A full sentence, here, is a sentence which contains the minimum requirements of a sentence. In other words, to build a sentence, there are some rules to be obeyed. This is called sentence structure or sentence building.

For example:

book, man, table, folk, assignment, job, diligent, work, write, say, learn, pen, etc.

All above are words. When we look up our dictionary, those words will be found both the meaning and the functions (some dictionaries do not include the functions, e.g. book/n. He bought a ~.)

There are many kinds of words in English that we, of course, can not memorize all of them. To understand the words, the uncountable words are then classified into many ways. One of them is that words are categorized in parts of speech. By learning each elements in the parts of speech, we finally understand in what pattern and when they will be used.

Here's the parts of speech according to leGrammar.blogpsot.com:


1. Noun
2. Adjective
3. Verb
4. Adverb
5. Pronoun
6. Conjunction
7. Preposition
8. Article
9. Interjection

Each elements wil be discussed in the future. You can go to each parts in leGrammar's sidebar.

There are two types of words in English:

1. Lexical meaning word
2. Structural meaning word

Definiton.
Lexical meaning word is a word which has a certain meaning and function. This can be found when we look up in our dictionary. Structural meaning word is a word which does not have a certain meaning but a function. Structural meaning word can not stand alone to make a full meaning. Therefore, it must be combined with other words to make a phrase or a sentence.

Lexical meaning word: e.g. book, want, tell, inform, see, make, buy etc.
For example:

I want to buy a book.
Take notice that there are two structural meaning word in the sentence above, they are; /to/ and /a/.

Structural meaning word: e.g. on, off, is, a, an, the, etc.
For example:

She is a nurse.
In the sentence above we find the verb "be" /is/ and the article /a/ as structural meaning words.
We will discuss all of them in the future.