Define open and closed class words.

Identify which parts of speech belong to

open and closed word classes.
OPEN CLASS WORDS (content/lexical):
Huge categories of words that change constantly and easily and admits new members are called
open class words.
 New words can readily be coined to add it (i.e. girl or girls)
 Their membership is fairly open-ended i.e. these words have different meanings
 A member of one class may be identical in spelling or pronunciation with a member of
another class (i.e. We Vwalk daily)
EXAMPLES
1. Water
2. Good
3. Walk
4. Sweet
5. Yesterday.
6. Calm
7. Lovely.
8. Sing
9. Numbers.
10. Dog

CLOSED CLASS WORDS (function words):

Class of words that does not admits new members and are smaller in number are known as closed
words.
 They tend to stay around a long time
 Although changes can occur over very long periods of time
 Are specific in meaning
EXAMPLES
1. a
2. The
3. Of
4. By
5. She.
6. I
7. Under.
8. Over

1
 9. But.
10. Off
PARTS OF SPEECH IN OPEN AND CLOSED WORD CLASSES
Each word belongs to a word class. The word classic a word is known as part-of-speech of that
word. There are right basic parts of speech:
Noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, adverb, conjunction, article

OPEN CLASS
NOUN: They typically name things or concepts e.g. girl, beauty, flower etc.
VERB: They can describe actions, states and conditions e.g. sing, run, become, etc.
ADJECTIVE: Describes noun e.g. best, calm, lovely, etc.
ADVERB: They usually give more information about the verb e.g. sadly, gratefully, wildly etc.

CLOSED CLASS
PRONOUNS: Used to refer nouns e.g. he, she, it, who, I etc.
CONJUNCTIONS: Join phrases or sentences e.g. and, or, but, that etc.
PREPOSITIONS: Usually show how one thing is related to other e.g. at, by, for, in etc.
ARTICLES: Word used with a noun to specify it e.g. a, the, an etc.