| Word Classes | Description | Examples |
| Nouns | these are the names of people, things or ideas | man, cassette, Malaysia, beauty, danger |
| Verbs | these describe actions or states | actions: go, eat, attack states: relax, like |
| Adjectives | these describes nouns | an old man, a Malaysian cassette, a dangerous driver |
| Adverbs | these have several functions, but most of them describe when or in what way the action of a verb happens; most (but not all end in -ly | She sang beautifully. Please come back soon |
| Prepositions | most of these are short words, used before a noun to show time or place | at school, under the table, before breakfast |
Say whether these words are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs or prepositions. A few of them belong to two categories - for example, train can be a noun (a railway train) and a verb (Our team trained for a month.)
1. after
2. bread
3. dangerous
4. danger
5. dangerously
6. Malaysia
7. Malaysian
8. with
9. succeed
10. success
11. successful
12. important
13. importance
14. truth
15. true
If you are not sure about the class of a word, look in your dictionary. Most dictionaries show the class of a word and give examples to show how it is used in a typical sentence.
n. in a dictionary means nouns
v.(or v.i. or v.t.) means verb;
adj. means adjective;
adv. means adverb;
prep. means preposition.
Source: Richard Hughes, Carmel Heah (Common Errors in English, Oxford Fajar)
