This document is an abstract for an essay on data analysis and justification of word classes in the English language. It discusses the morphological and syntactic features of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Nouns denote objects and contain plural markings and genitive case markers. Verbs predicate actions and contain tense and third person singular markings. Adjectives modify nouns or attributes in the verb "be" and do not have verbal or nominal properties. Adverbs denote manner, time and location and generally end in "-ly". The essay will analyze verbs and determine if they fall under verb subclasses or the larger verb category.

1. Essay - Data analysis and justification
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Abstract
English, an SVO language consists of lexical items that can fall under the category of various
grammatical or wordclassesdependingonthe syntacticor semanticsimilaritiestheyexhibit. Words
that denote a specific object and are concrete in nature fall s under the word class ‘noun’. They
contain morphological features like plural marking ‘-(e) s’, articles, number, i.e., either singular or
plural form (dog – dogs; child – children) and contains a pronoun as a genitive case marker along
withthe nounphrase (mycar, ourcars, etc.).Wordsthat predicate propertiesof anaction fall under
the ‘verb’ word class. Verbs are also called action words and the morphological features they
possess are as follows: they can be either in past or present tense (walk, walked); in case of third
personsingular subject (he, she, it) verbs possess the suffix ‘ -s’ in its present form (he/she walks,
nurse/doctorwalks,etc.).There is also another type of verbs that helps the main verb to express a
meaninglike can,could,wil l,would,should, may, might, must, ought and sell. These are known as
auxiliary verbs or modals. Words that fall under adjectives word class modifies noun phrases (the
beautiful house) orattributespredicatesinthe copularverb‘be’(the house isred).Adjectivesdo not
possess verbal (*itredded)ornominal properties(*myred).Lexical itemsthatdenote manner, time
and locationfallsunderadverb class. They do not possess nominal, verbal or adjectival properties,
adverbs generally ends with ‘-ly’ (he ran quickly). This article looks at the morphological and the
syntactic features of various verbs and analyses if they fall under subcategory of verb, class or
whether they fall under the larger category of verb bearing similar properties.