A pre-natural class of modules over a ring R is one that is closed under is
omorphic copies, submodules, arbitrary direct sums, and certain essential e
xtensions. The set N-r(P)(R) of all pre-natural classes is a lattice, which
contains many previously studied lattices of R-module classes. The sublatt
ice structure of N-r(p)(R) is studied in this paper and is related to ring
and module properties of R. (C) 2000 Academic Press.