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present participle.noun
Grammar – a participle
expressing present action, formed in English by the infinitive
plus -ing and used to express present action in relation to the time indicated
by the finite verb in its clause, to form progressive tenses with the auxiliary
be, and to function as a verbal adjective
intensive.adjective
Grammar – tending
to emphasize or intensify (an intensive adverb)
intensive.noun
Grammar – a linguistic
element, such as the adverb extremely or awfully, that provides force or
emphasis; also called intensifier
singular.adjective
Grammar –
of, relating to, or being a noun, pronoun, or adjective denoting a single
person or thing or several entities considered as a single unit
preterit or preterite.adjective
Grammar – of, relating
to, or being the verb tense that describes a past action or state
preterit.noun
the verb form expressing or describing a past
action or condition; a verb in the preterit form
prefix,
prefixed,
prefixing,
prefixes.transitive
verbs
to put or attach before or in front of
Grammar – to add
as a prefix; to add a prefix to
prefix.noun-an
affix,
such as dis- in disbelieve, put before a word to produce a derivative word
or an inflected form
suffix.noun
Grammar – an affix
added to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning
as an inflectional ending, such as -ness in gentleness, -ing in walking,
or -s in sits
suffix,
suffixed,
suffixing,
suffixes.transitive
verbs
to add as a suffix.
suffixal.adjective
suffixion.noun
base.noun
Linguistics – a
morpheme
or morphemes regarded as a form to which affixes
or other bases may be added
stem.noun
Linguistics – the
main part of a word to which affixes
are added
root.noun
Linguistics – the
element that carries the main component of meaning in a word and provides
the basis from which a word is derived
by adding affixes or inflectional
endings or by phonetic-change;
such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage-(a
language that is the recorded or hypothetical
ancestor of another language or group of languages); also called radical
conditional.adjective
a mood,
tense,
clause,
or word expressing a condition
condition.noun
the dependent clause
of a conditional sentence
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