abbreviation.nouns (also Abbr. abbr., abbrev)
the act or product of shortening; a shortened form of a word or phrase used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form, such as Mass. for Massachusetts or USMC for United States Marine Corps

article.noun
Grammar.–.any of a class of words used to signal nouns and to specify their application; in English, the indefinite articles are a and an and the definite article is the

attributive, attributiveness.nouns
a word or word group, such as an adjective, that is placed adjacent to the noun it modifies without a linking verb; for example, pale in the pale girl attributive.adjective
of, relating to, or being an attributive, as an adjective; of or having the nature of an attribution or attribute
attributively.adverb

colloquial.adjective
characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal
colloquia, colloquialness.noun
colloquially.adverb

colloquialism.noun
colloquial style or quality; a colloquial expression

imperative mood.adjective
Grammar-–-of, relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request
verb-the imperative mood; a verb form of the imperative mood

inflection.noun
Grammar-–-an alternation of the form of a word by adding affixes, as in English dogs from dog, or by changing the form of a base, as in English spoke from speak, that indicates grammatical features such as number, person, mood, or tense; the paradigm of a word; a pattern of forming paradigms, such as noun inflection or verb inflection; a turning or bending away from a course or position of alignment
inflectional.adjective
inflectionally.adverb

linguistics.noun
the science of language including phonology (speech sounds; phonetics), morphology (internal structure of words), syntax, and semantics.(the study of meaning in forms of language) dealing with the nature, structure, development and changes of the meanings of speech forms)
linguistically.adverb
linguistic.adjective
linguist.noun
a specialist in linguistics; polyglot; a person who can speak, read, and write several languages

mood.noun
Grammar-–-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.

object.noun
Grammar-–-a noun or substantive that receives or is affected by the action of a verb within a sentence; a noun or substantive following and governed by a preposition

interjection.noun
a sudden, short utterance; a part of speech usually expressing emotion and capable of standing alone, such as Ugh! or Wow!
interjectional.adjective
interjectionally.adverb

past tense.noun
a verb tense used to express an action or a condition that occurred in or during the past, for example, in 'while she was sewing, he read aloud', was sewing and read are in the past tense

phrasal verb.noun
an English verb complex consisting of a verb and one or more following particles and acting as a complete syntactic and semantic unit, as look up in She looked up the word in the dictionary or She looked the word up in the dictionary

phrase.noun
Grammar-–-two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence

syntax.noun
the arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship; sentence structure; the study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences; the pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language; such a pattern in a particular sentence or discourse; a systematic, orderly arrangement; to put in order

syntactic.or.syntactical.adjective
of or relating to the rules of syntax; conforming to accepted patterns of syntax
syntactically.adverb