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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)
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 inflection 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, 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.verb,
such as a form of 'be' or 'seem', 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-(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)
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
change 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 – boy is a noun, so is water and truth, etc.
(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
uninflected 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
grammar.noun
the study of how words and their component
parts combine to form sentences; 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
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
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