Word Types

• Morpheme


  Root word e.g 'bird'
• Word


  Made up of one or two morphemes e.g 'antithesis made up of the morphemes 'anti' and 'thesis'.'
• Adjective


  Word that modifies a noun (e.g the ORANGE sky)
• Superlative


  Adjective expressing highest level (Fastest)
• Modal auxiliary verb


  Expresses certainty, necessity, obligation: will, would, can
• Epistemic modality

  Expresses degrees of probability: (shall, will)
• Deontic Modality

  Expresses necessity (may, must)
• Aspect

  Perfective (the action is complete

  eg. She scored a hat-trick)
• Aspect

  Progressive (still in the process of doing it)

  She was playing

  She is playing

  We expect her to play