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 * See also* Ontology

Noun

Verb

Adjective

Adverb

Pronoun
 * Personal pronouns
 * First person
 * I, me
 * we, us
 * Second person
 * you
 * Third person
 * he, him, she, her, it, they
 * they, them
 * Demonstrative pronouns
 * this, that, these
 * Interrogative pronouns
 * which, who
 * Indefinite pronouns
 * none, several
 * Possessive pronouns
 * his, your
 * Reciprocal pronouns
 * each other, one another

Determiner
 * Articles (e.g., a, an, the)
 * Demonstratives (e.g., this, that)
 * Possessive determiner (e.g., )
 * Quantifiers (e.g., all, some, many, few, no)
 * Distributive determiners (e.g., each, any, either, neither )
 * Interrogative determiners (e.g., which, what, whose )

Preposition


 * Top
 * above, over
 * atop, ontop
 * up, upon


 * Bottom
 * below
 * beneath
 * down
 * under, underneath


 * Front
 * before
 * opposite


 * Back
 * behind
 * beyond
 * past


 * Side
 * beside


 * Inside
 * amid, among
 * between
 * in, inside, into
 * within


 * Outside
 * around
 * out, outside
 * without


 * Near
 * about
 * at
 * by
 * near


 * Touching
 * across
 * against
 * along
 * on, onto
 * off


 * Motion
 * from
 * through, throughout
 * to, toward, towards
 * since
 * during
 * till, until


 * Misc
 * for
 * like
 * of
 * than
 * with

Conjunction
 * Coordinating
 * For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
 * Correlative
 * either...or
 * not only...but (also)
 * neither...nor
 * both...and
 * whether...or
 * just as...so
 * the...the
 * as...as
 * as much...as
 * no sooner...than
 * rather...than
 * Subordinating
 * after, although, as, as far as, as if, as long as, as soon as, as though, because, before, even if, even though, every time, if, in order that, since, so, so that, than, though, unless, until, when, whenever, where, whereas, wherever, and while

Exclamation

From Wikipedia*Appendix*Basic English word list

Operations - 100 words
come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take, be, do, have, say, see, send, may, will, about, across, after, against, among, at, before, between, by, down, from, in, off, on, over, through, to, under, up, with, as, for, of, till, than, a, the, all, any, every, no, other, some, such, that, this, I, he, you, who, and, because, but, or, if, though, while, how, when, where, why, again, ever, far, forward, here, near, now, out, still, then, there, together, well, almost, enough, even, little, much, not, only, quite, so, very, tomorrow, yesterday, north, south, east, west, please, yes.

Nouns (400)
account, act, addition, adjustment, advertisement, agreement, air, amount, amusement, animal, answer, apparatus, approval, argument, art, attack, attempt, attention, attraction, authority,

back, balance, base, behaviour, belief, birth, bit, bite, blood, blow, body, brass, bread, breath, brother, building, burn, burst, business, butter,

canvas, care, cause, chalk, chance, change, cloth, coal, colour, comfort, committee, company, comparison, competition, condition, connection, control, cook, copper, copy, cork, cotton, cough, country, cover, crack, credit, crime, crush, cry, current, curve,

damage, danger, daughter, day, death, debt, decision, degree, design, desire, destruction, detail, development, digestion, direction, discovery, discussion, disease, disgust, distance, distribution, division, doubt, drink, driving, dust,

earth, edge, education, effect, end, error, event, example, exchange, existence, expansion, experience, expert,

fact, fall, family, father, fear, feeling, fiction, field, fight, fire, flame, flight, flower, fold, food, force, form, friend, front, fruit

glass, gold, government, grain, grass, grip, group, growth, guide,

harbour, harmony, hate, hearing, heat, help, history, hole, hope, hour, humour,

ice, idea, impulse, increase, industry, ink, insect, instrument, insurance, interest, invention, iron,

jelly, join, journey, judge, jump,

kick, kiss, knowledge,

land, language, laugh, law, lead, learning, leather, letter, level, lift, light, limit, linen, liquid, list, look, loss, love,

machine, man, manager, mark, market, mass, meal, measure, meat, meeting, memory, metal, middle, milk, mind, mine, minute, mist, money, month, morning, mother, motion, mountain, move, music,

name, nation, need, news, night, noise, note, number,

observation, offer, oil, operation, opinion, order, organization, ornament, owner

page, pain, paint, paper, part, paste, payment, peace, person, place, plant, play, pleasure, point, poison, polish, porter, position, powder, power, price, print, process, produce, profit, property, prose, protest, pull, punishment, purpose, push,

quality, question,

rain, range, rate, ray, reaction, reading, reason, record, regret, relation, religion, representative, request, respect, rest, reward, rhythm, rice, river, road, roll, room, rub, rule, run,

salt, sand, scale, science, sea, seat, secretary, selection, self, sense, servant, sex, shade, shake, shame, shock, side, sign, silk, silver, sister, size, sky, sleep, slip, slope, smash, smell, smile, smoke, sneeze, snow, soap, society, son, song, sort, sound, soup, space, stage, start, statement, steam, steel, step, stitch, stone, stop, story, stretch, structure, substance, sugar, suggestion, summer, support, surprise, swim, system,

talk, taste, tax, teaching, tendency, test, theory, thing, thought, thunder, time, tin, top, touch, trade, transport, trick, trouble, turn, twist,

unit, use,

value, verse, vessel, view, voice,

walk, war, wash, waste, water, wave, wax, way, weather, week, weight, wind, wine, winter, woman, wood, wool, word, work, wound, writing,

year.

Nouns - (200)
angle, ant, apple, arch, arm, army,

baby, bag, ball, band, basin, basket, bath, bed, bee, bell, berry, bird, blade, board, boat, bone, book, boot, bottle, box, boy, brain, brake, branch, brick, bridge, brush, bucket, bulb, button,

cake, camera, card, cart, carriage, cat, chain, cheese, chest, chin, church, circle, clock, cloud, coat, collar, comb, cord, cow, cup, curtain, cushion,

dog, door, drain, drawer, dress, drop,

ear, egg, engine, eye,

face, farm, feather, finger, fish, flag, floor, fly, foot, fork, fowl, frame,

garden, girl, glove, goat, gun,

hair, hammer, hand, hat, head, heart, hook, horn, horse, hospital, house,

island,

jewel,

kettle, key, knee, knife, knot,

leaf, leg, library, line, lip, lock,

map, match, monkey, moon, mouth, muscle,

nail, neck, needle, nerve, net, nose, nut,

office, orange, oven,

parcel, pen, pencil, picture, pig, pin, pipe, plane, plate, plough, pocket, pot, potato, prison, pump,

rail, rat, receipt, ring, rod, roof, root,

sail, school, scissors, screw, seed, sheep, shelf, ship, shirt, shoe, skin, skirt, snake, sock, spade, sponge, spoon, spring, square, stamp, star, station, stem, stick, stocking, stomach, store, street, sun,

table, tail, thread, throat, thumb, ticket, toe, tongue, tooth, town, train, tray, tree, trousers,

umbrella,

wall, watch, wheel, whip, whistle, window, wing, wire, worm.

Adjectives - (100)
able, acid, angry, automatic,

beautiful, black, boiling, bright, broken, brown,

cheap, chemical, chief, clean, clear, common, complex, conscious, cut,

deep, dependent,

early, elastic, electric, equal,

fat, fertile, first, fixed, flat, free, frequent, full,

general, good, great, grey,

hanging, happy, hard, healthy, high, hollow,

important,

kind,

like, living, long,

married, material, medical, military,

natural, necessary, new, normal,

open,

parallel, past, physical, political, poor, possible, present, private, probable,

quick, quiet,

ready, red, regular, responsible, right, round,

same, second, separate, serious, sharp, smooth, sticky, stiff, straight, strong, sudden, sweet,

tall, thick, tight, tired, true,

violent,

waiting, warm, wet, wide, wise,

young.

colors
blue, green, yellow, orange, red, white, grey, black,

Structure words

 * See also* Function word

articles
the a

pronouns
he — him she — her

particles
if, then, well, however, thus,

pro-sentences
yes, okay,