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  • Some parts of speech allow us to add new words like nonus,verbs so these are called open or lexical class
    • For example I invented new tool especially for the purpose of removing spines from cacti so I call this tool as ramfice and developed verb ramfize which means to remove cactus spines using ramfice tool.likewise fax, internet,ram etc word
  • By contrast some parts of specch that don't allow new forms like prepositions so these are called closed or functional class

For example I want to describe the situation where a fish under the water.

Likewise in dentascript Open are patient name,diseases Hodgkin lymphoma Turner tooth Hutchinson tooth

Closed are sex,age,tooth numbering,diseases,signs

  • Open classes describe content Closed classes describe grammatical content

Open categories of english Noun verbs adjective adverbs

Closed categories of english [[docs/dentascript/prepositions]] [[Determiners]] [[conjunctions]] [[complementizers]] [[Tenses]] - ## 1.32 subcategories - categories again have sub categories - For example

In open category Noun