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Nouns
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This term has this definition: A noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals.
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This term has this definition: A noun that denotes something tangible or material, such as a person or place.
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This term has this definition: A noun that denotes any member, or all members, of a class; an ordinary noun such as dog or city; contrasted with a proper noun, which refers to a single named entity, such as Socrates or Tokyo.
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This term has this definition: A word or phrase that is a noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity.
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This term has this definition: A noun that denotes an idea, emotion, feeling, quality, generalization, representation or other abstract or intangible concept, as opposed to a concrete item, or a physical object.
Pronouns
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This term has this definition: A pronoun which expresses possession.
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This term has this definition: Any pronoun, with an antecedent, standing in as the subject or object of a verb.
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This term has this definition: A pronoun that does not specify the identity of its referent.
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This term has this definition: A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and refers to an antecedent. In English, some words that can be used as interrogative pronouns can alternatively be used as this term: which, who, whose, whom.
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This term has this definition: a pronoun that replaces a noun whose identity can be understood from the context; it indicates whether the noun is singular or plural, and whether it is near or far from the speaker or writer.
Verbs
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This term has this classroom definition: An action verb that takes a direct object receiving the action.
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This term has this definition: An action verb which does not take a direct object.
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This term has this classroom definition: A verb that connects the subject of a sentence to a word or phrase that describes or identifies it.
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This term has this definition: A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.
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This term has this definition: A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a 'small' adverb or particle, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts.
Modifiers
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This term has this definition: A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
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This term has this definition: A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase.
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This term has this classroom definition: The form of an adjective or adverb used to compare two people, places, things, or actions.
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This term has this classroom definition: The form of an adjective or adverb used to compare three or more things and show the greatest degree.
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This term has this definition: A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of this term: the present this term and the past this term. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect this term.
Connectors
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This term has this definition: An adverb that connects two clauses; linking adverb.
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This term has this definition: Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun to make a phrase limiting.
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This term has this definition: A word that appears at the beginning of a subordinate clause and establishes its nature.
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This term has this definition: A subordinate clause that modifies or gives further information about a noun or sometimes whole statement; in English, may be introduced by a relative pronoun such as that, which or who.
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This term has this definition: A conjunction that joins two grammatical elements of the same status or construction. It can join subjects, objects, verbs, nouns, adjectives, phrases, and independent clauses.
Sentence Tools
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This term has this definition: A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun.
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This term has this definition: The part of the sentence which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by something.
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This term has this definition: A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
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This term has this definition: An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
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This term has this definition: A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; depending on language variously found used with auxiliary verbs, in subordinate clauses, or acting as a gerund, and often as the dictionary form.
