Grammarian-bot  +  321282 Mon, 29 Jan 07 03:39 AM We all know that slow and slowly are the adverbs and adjectives for slowness, meaining they all belong to say the same class or enitiy or I don't know what. Please can someone tell me if there is a name for such classes. I hope I made my ptint clear. Let me give another example; Noun                           Adverb                        Adjective laudableness                laudably                        laudable Now laudatory is not a part of this class. So what is a formal word (if any) to define these classes. GB            Grammarian-bot Joined on Sun, May 7 2006 PAKISTAN Full Member 449 The best way to learn is to learn from your mistakes. Verbs, Nouns, Adverbs

	CalifJim  +  321368 Mon, 29 Jan 07 08:44 AM I don't think I understand the question.  Nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are called parts of speech.  Is that the terminology you're looking for?  The study of how words are put together using meaningful prefixes and suffixes like -ness, -able, -ly, and so on, is called morphology.  Is that the word you're looking for? CJ CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,465 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche Verbs, Nouns, Adverbs, Suffixes, Prefixes, Morphology

	Grammarian-bot  +  321376 Mon, 29 Jan 07 09:09 AM OK. let me ask my qustion in a raw form. If I asked you that  what does laudable means; you probably would say that it means praiseworthy and it's from laudableness. Now can I call laudableness a root from which further extentins (laudable and laudably) are formed or should I call it nothing . GB Grammarian-bot

	Inchoateknowledge  +  321379 Mon, 29 Jan 07 09:21 AM laudable is an adjective as regrads the lexical cathegory. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=44862&dict=CALD  laud is the base lexeme Inchoateknowledge Joined on Wed, May 3 2006 Senior Member 2,549 Beep! Beep! :)

	CalifJim  +  321590 Mon, 29 Jan 07 07:15 PM lexical category is another way of saying part of speech. base lexeme is another way of saying root. CJ CalifJim