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Explore lexical roles in language

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Explore lexical roles in language

by GULRUXSOR
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Slide 1: What are lexical units?

Lexical units are the core elements that carry meaning in language. They include content words whose primary role is semantic content and message formation.

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Slide 2: Nouns

Nouns name people, places, things, or ideas. They function as subjects, objects, or complements, and can be concrete or abstract in meaning.

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Slide 3: Verbs

Verbs express actions, processes, or states. They show tense, aspect, mood, and voice, and help organize the sentence around action.

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Slide 4: Adjectives

Adjectives describe or modify nouns. They provide qualities like color, size, age, or opinion, enriching the meaning of nouns.

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Slide 5: Adverbs

Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. They convey manner, time, place, degree, frequency, or certainty in a sentence.

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Slide 6: Pronouns

Pronouns replace nouns to avoid repetition. They refer to people or things previously mentioned or understood from context.

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Slide 7: Determiners

Determiners introduce nouns and express definiteness, quantity, or ownership. Examples include articles, demonstratives, and possessives.

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Slide 8: Prepositions

Prepositions show relationships between nouns and other elements, indicating location, direction, time, or manner.

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Slide 9: Conjunctions

Conjunctions connect words, phrases, or clauses. They create compound thoughts and indicate contrast, addition, or cause-and-effect.

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Slide 10: Lexical vs Function words

Lexical units carry core meaning; function words guide grammar and structure. Together, they build fluent, meaningful sentences.

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Slide 1: What are lexical units?

Lexical units are the content words that carry meaning: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. They form the core of sentences. Lexical words

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Slide 2: Nouns — the naming hubs

Nouns name people, places, things, or ideas. They often function as subjects or objects in sentences.
Example: The cat sleeps on the mat. Cat on a mat

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Slide 3: Verbs — actions and states

Verbs express actions or states. They are the action engine of clauses.
Example: run, exist, eat. Running person

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Slide 4: Adjectives — color and quality

Adjectives describe nouns, adding color, size, or quality. They help comparisons: small, bigger, beautiful. Colorful shapes

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Slide 5: Adverbs — how, when, where

Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. They convey manner, time, place or degree. quickly, yesterday, here.

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Slide 6: Pronouns — stand-ins

Pronouns replace nouns to avoid repetition. He, she, it, they keep sentences smooth. People icons

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Slide 7: Collocations and phrases

Lexical units form fixed phrases and common pairings, like make a decision or take a shower. These sound natural in language. Collocations

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Slide 8: Content vs function words

Lexical units are content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs). They contrast with function words like prepositions and conjunctions. Word types

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Slide 9: Fun fact about long words

Long words aren’t always practical lexical units. Some are technical or coined terms, not common in daily speech. Did you know pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? Long word

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Slide 10: Quick practice

Identify the lexical units in: Bright students read quickly in the library.
Highlight nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Tip: label each word with its class.
 
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