The main parts of speech are ... - verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns., Parts of speech can be grouped - into two major families: Lexical words and Function words., Lexical words are ... - the main carriers of information in a text., Lexical VERBS (main verbs) ... - are those which express meanings related to actions or physical activity, others to mental or intellectual activities, and others express meanings related to states and feelings.  , A NOUN is ... - a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events, ideas and feelings., ADJECTIVES - modify nouns or pronouns. They describe the qualities of people, things and abstractions., ADVERBS - add information about the circumstances of a situation or an event. They complete the meaning of verbs stating how, when, where, how often something happens. , Function words ... - indicate meaning relationships and help us to interpret units containing lexical words, by showing hoy the units are related to each other., AUXILIARY VERBS - lack meaning and are added to a main or lexical verb to serve various functions., a NOUN DETERMINER - restricts the meaning of a noun by limiting its reference., a CONJUNCTION - link two clauses in a sentence to indicate the relationship between them., PREPOSITIONS - are linking words that introduce prepositional phrases,, PRONOUNS - fill the position of a noun or a whole noun phrase.,

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