Claim: Every regular language is context free. Proof: Let R be a regular expression that decides language L. We want to show that R can be converted to a context free grammar. A regular expression has 3 operations to consider: union, concatenation, and star. The following shows how to convert each operation. Union, between 2 languages with start states A and T respectively S -> A | T Concatenation, between 2 languages with start states A and T respectively S -> AT | TA Star, with a language with start state S S -> SS | e