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adjective .used
to qualify a.noun;
good, every, mimic, etc. (good vehicle; every bird; mimic a clown)
adverb.used
to modify a verb, adjective or other adverb by
expressing time, place manner, degree, cause, etc. (she is alluringly
dressed)
antonym.a
word having a meaning opposite to that of another word (the word wet is
an antonym of the word dry)
case.noun,.plural.cases
in the grammar of many
languages, the case of a group such as a noun group or adjective group
is the form
it has which shows its relationship to other groups in the sentence; the
syntactic
relationship of a noun, a pronoun
or a determiner to the other words of a sentence, indicated by declensional
endings, by the position of the words within the sentence, by prepositions
or by postpositions;
the form or position of a word that indicates this relationship; such forms,
positions and relationships considered as a group; a pattern of inflection
of nouns, pronouns and adjectives to express different syntactic functions
in a sentence; the form of such an inflected word
conjugate,
conjugated,
conjugating,
conjugates.transitive
verbs
Grammar:.to
inflect
a verb in its forms for distinctions such as number, person, voice,
mood
and tense
conjugation.noun
the inflected form
of a particular
verb;
a presentation of the complete set of inflected forms of a verb
conjunction.a
part of speech such as and, but, as, nor and because
that serves to connect words, phrases,
clauses
or sentences
conjunctive.adjective
joining; connective; joined together; combined
(the conjunctive focus of political opposition)
Grammar:.of,
relating.to.or.being
a conjunction; serving
to connect elements of meaning and construction within sentences, as and
and since or between sentences, as therefore
copula.a
copula is a.verb,
such as a form of 'be', 'being' or 'seem', 'seeming' that identifies the
predicate
of a sentence with the subject; also
called linking verb; the word or
set of words that serves as a link between the
subject
and predicate of a proposition-(which
is a statement in which the subject is affirmed or denied by the predicate)
copular.adjective
enclitic.a
word or particle that has no independent accent
and forms an accentual and sometimes also graphemic unit with the preceding
word; forming an accentual unit with the preceding word and thus
having no independent accent (in Give 'em the works, the pronoun
'em
is
an enclitic)
epenthesis.noun,.plural.epentheses
Linguistics:.the
insertion of a sound in the middle of a word, as in Middle English 'thunder'
from Old English 'thunor'
epenthetic.adjective
genitive.adjective
Grammar:
in the grammar of some languages,
the genitive or the genitive case,
is a noun case which is used mainly to show possession; in English grammar,
a noun or name with 's added to it, for example 'dog's' or 'Anne's', is
sometimes called the genitive form; of,
relating.to.or.designating
a case that expresses possession, measurement or source; of,
relating.to
an affix or a construction, such
as a prepositional.phrase,
characteristic
of the genitive case
genitive.noun,.plural.genitives
the genitive case; a form
or construction in this case
grammar.noun
the study of how words and their component parts
combine to form sentences (a grammar list); the study of structural relationships
in language or in a language,
sometimes including pronunciation,
meaning
and linguistic
history; the system of inflections,
syntax
and word formation of a language; the system of rules.implicit
in a language, viewed as a mechanism for generating all sentences possible
in that language; writing or speech judged with regard to such a set of
rules; absolute grammar
grammarian.noun,.plural.grammarians
a specialist
in grammar
grammatical.adjective
of or relating to grammar;
conforming
to the rules of grammar (a grammatical sentence)
grammatically.adverb
grammaticality.noun
indefinite pronoun.a
pronoun,
such as English any or some, that does not specify the identity
of its object
infinitive.a
verb
form that functions as a substantive
while retaining certain verbal characteristics, such as modification by
adverbs
and that in English may be preceded by
to, as in To go willingly
is to show strength or We want him to work harder or may also
occur without to, as in She had them read the letter or We
may finish today; split infinitive.an
infinitive verb form with an element, usually an adverb, interposed
between
to and the verb form, as in
to boldly go
inflected form.to
use inflections in altering
the form of a word, signaling change in tense,
voice,
mood,
person, gender, number or case
mood.a
set of verb forms or inflections
used to indicate the speaker's attitude toward the factuality or likelihood
of the action or condition expressed; in English the indicative
mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive
mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood and the imperative
mood to express a command.
noun.words
which name things, such as, a 'boy' is a noun, so is water and truth, cars,
clothes, etc.; nouns are just names of things, whereas
a verbdenotes
action
of those things, such as the boy threw the ball, where 'threw' is a verb
which both the boy and the ball were affected
by
(also see pronoun)
collective noun.a
noun that denotes a collection
of persons or things regarded as a unit
participle
Grammar:.a
form of a verb that in some
languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective,
as the past participle-baked-in
'We had some baked beans' and is used with an auxiliary verb to indicate
tense,
aspect or voice, as the past
participle-baked-in
the passive sentence 'The beans were baked too long.'
The 'dangling participle' is quite common in speech,
where it often passes unremarked; but its use in writing can lead to unintentional
absurdities, as in 'He went to watch his horse take a turn around the track
carrying a copy of the breeders' guide under his arm.'
Even when the construction occasions no ambiguity,
it is likely to distract the reader, who will ordinarily be operating on
the assumption that a participle or other modifying phrase
will be associated with the
noun.phrase
that is immediately
adjacent to
it.
Thus the
sentence 'Turning the corner, the view was quite different', would be better
rewritten as 'The view was quite different when we turned the corner' or
'Turning the corner, we saw a different view.'
A number of expressions originally
derived
from active participles are now well established as prepositions of a kind
and these may be used freely to introduce phrases
that are not associated with the immediately adjacent noun phrase. Such
expressions include concerning, considering, failing, granting, judging
by and speaking of. Thus one may write 'Speaking of politics, the elections
have been postponed' or 'Considering the hour, it is surprising that he
arrived at all'.
past participle.a
verb
form indicating
past or completed action or time that is used as a verbal
adjective
in phrases such as 'baked beans' and 'finished' and with auxiliaries
to form the passive-voice
or perfect and
pluperfect-tenses
in constructions such as 'She had baked the beans' and 'The work was finished'.
Also called perfect participle.
particle
Grammar, Linguistics:.an
item not inflected item that
has grammatical function but does not clearly belong to one of the major
parts of speech, such as up in look up or to in English
infinitives;
in some systems of grammatical analysis, any short function word, including
articles,
prepositions
and conjunctions
dative.adjective
of, relating to or being the grammatical case
that in some Indo-European languages, such as Latin and Russian, as well
as in some non-Indo-European languages, marks the recipient of action and
is used with prepositions
or other function words corresponding in meaning to English 'to' and 'for'
dative.noun
the dative case; a word or form in the dative
case; from datus, past participle of dare,
to give
datively.adverb
expletive.an
exclamation;
a word or phrase that does not contribute any meaning but is added only
to fill out a sentence; a word that stands in place of and anticipates
a following word or phrase; in the sentence 'There are many books on the
table', the word 'there' functions as an expletive
expletive.adjective
added or inserted in order to fill out something,
such as a sentence
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