English has four major word classes: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Nouns are the most common type of word, followed by verbs. Adjectives are less common and adverbs are even less common.
Many words belong to more than one word class. For example, book can be used as a noun or as a verb; fast can be used as an adjective or an adverb:
It’s an interesting book. (noun)
We ought to book a holiday soon. (verb)
He loves fast cars. (adjective)
Don’t drive so fast! (adverb)
We have also been looking at prepositions and determiners! I wonder if you can spot nouns whilst on a walk or use adjectives to describe nouns on a car journey? The word class game can be so much fun!
