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What are examples of words?

Here are some examples of words, categorized by type:

Nouns:

* Common nouns: table, cat, happiness, idea, city

* Proper nouns: John, London, Earth, The Great Wall of China, Christmas

Verbs:

* Action verbs: run, jump, sing, write, eat

* Linking verbs: be, seem, become, appear, feel

Adjectives:

* Descriptive adjectives: red, happy, big, beautiful, noisy

* Quantitative adjectives: two, several, few, many, some

Adverbs:

* Time adverbs: yesterday, tomorrow, now, soon, later

* Place adverbs: here, there, everywhere, nowhere

* Manner adverbs: quickly, slowly, carefully, angrily

Pronouns:

* Personal pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, they

* Possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs

* Reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves

Prepositions:

* Location: in, on, under, over, beside, behind

* Time: before, after, during, since, until

* Direction: to, from, through, towards, across

Conjunctions:

* Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet

* Subordinating conjunctions: because, although, since, while, if, unless

Interjections:

* Exclamations: Wow!, Ouch!, Hey!

* Greetings: Hello!, Goodbye!

Other:

* Articles: a, an, the

* Determiners: this, that, these, those, some, any

* Numbers: one, two, three, four, five...

Examples of words in a sentence:

* The cat sat on the mat. (nouns, verbs, prepositions)

* She quickly ran to the store. (pronoun, adverb, verb, article, noun)

* It is a beautiful day. (pronoun, verb, article, adjective, noun)

This list is not exhaustive, but it should give you a good idea of the types of words that exist in the English language.

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