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passive
of, relating to, or being a verb
form or voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject is the object
of the action or the effect of the verb. For example, in the sentence 'They
were impressed by his manner', were impressed is in the passive
voice
plural-–-more
than one
preposition.noun
a relation word that connects a noun, pronoun
or noun phrase to another part of the sentence, such as in, as, for, with,
to; means 'a putting before'; in some languages, a word placed before a
substantive
and indicating the relation of that substantive to a verb,
an adjective, or another
substantive, as English 'at', 'by', 'in', 'to', 'from', and 'with'; a word
or construction similar in function to a preposition, such as in regard
to or concerning
English syntax
allows and sometimes requires final placement of the preposition. Such
placement is the only possible one in sentences such as 'We have much to
be thankful for' or 'That depends on what you believe in'.
Efforts to rewrite such sentences to place the
preposition elsewhere will have comically stilted results; for example:
We have much for which to be thankful or That depends on that in which
you believe.
Even sticklers for the traditional rule (a preposition
may not be used to end a sentence) can have no grounds for criticizing
sentences such as 'I don't know where she will end up' or 'It's the most
curious book I've ever run across'. In these examples,
up and across
are used as adverbs, not prepositions,
as demonstrated by the ungrammaticality of sentences such as 'I don't know
up where she will end' and 'It's the most curious book across which I have
ever run'.
pron..abbreviation.for
pronominal,
pronoun,
pronounced,
and.pronunciation
pronominal.adjective
abbreviations.pron.,
pronom
Grammar – of, relating
to, or functioning as a pronoun; resembling a pronoun,
as by specifying a person, place, or thing, while functioning primarily
as another part of speech ('his' in his choice is a pronominal adjective)
pronominally.adverb
pronoun.noun.abbreviations.pron.,
pr.
– one of a class of words that function as substitutes for nouns
or noun phrases and designate
persons or things asked for, previously specified, or understood from the
context.(for
example, your name is a pronoun)
clause-–-a
group of words containing a subject and a predicate
and forming part of a compound or complex sentence; a distinct article,
stipulation, or provision in a document
clausal.adjective
substantive-–.adjective
designates a noun or noun equivalent;
a word or group of words functioning as a noun; means 'self sufficient',
'independent', 'from'
synonym – a word
having the same or nearly the same meaning in one or more senses as another
in the same language, such as admonish
and reprove
synonymous.adjective
having the same or a similar meaning (synonymous
words); equivalent in connotation.(a
widespread impression that Hollywood is synonymous with interesting productions)
synonymously.adverb
tense
any one of the inflected
forms in the conjugation
of a verb that indicates the time, such as past, present,
or future, as well as the continuance or completion of the action or state;
a set of tense forms indicating a particular time (the future tense)
verb-–-words
which express action, existence or occurrence,
such as, take, be, appear
indicative mood-–-of,
relating to, or being the mood of the verb used in ordinary
objective
statements – use...
subjunctive mood-–-of,
relating to, or being a mood of a verb used in some languages for contingent
or hypothetical action, action
viewed subjectively, or grammatically
subordinate statements--–--use...
imperative mood-–-of,
relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request
– use...
intransitive verb-–-not
transitive, that is, not used with an object to complete its meaning (He
gave assent
to the budget)
intransitive,
intransitiveness.nouns
intransitively.adverb
transitive verb-–-taking
a direct object to complete
its meaning (the boss will admonish some workers tomorrow)
transitively.adverb
transitiveness.or.transitivity.noun
auxiliary verb-–
a verb, such as have, can,
or will, that accompanies the main
verb in a clause and helps to make
distinctions in mood, voice, aspect,
and tense
voice
a property of verbs or a set
of verb
inflections
indicating the relation between the subject and the action expressed by
the verb ('birds build nests' uses the active
voice; 'nests built by birds' uses the passive
voice
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