This document discusses different ways of classifying elementary particles. Particles can be classified based on their interaction with fundamental forces, their intrinsic spin, or their composition. Regarding spin, particles are classified as fermions or bosons. Fermions have half-integer spin and obey Pauli's exclusion principle, while bosons have integer spin. Leptons are unaffected by the strong force and are fermions, while hadrons are affected by the strong force. Hadrons can be further classified as baryons, made of three quarks, or mesons, made of a quark and antiquark. The document also discusses properties of various particles like protons, neutrons, pions, and neutrinos.