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Grammar
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| To Conjugate | To give the different forms of a verb; varying according to voice mood, tense, number, and person |
| Verb | A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence |
| Noun | A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify people, places, things, or ideas |
| Adverb | A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, another adverb, or a word-group and expresses a relation to place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. |
| Adjective | A word or phrase naming an attribute in order to modify or describe a noun |
| Preposition | A word governing, usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause (Shows relation or time) |
| Conjunction | A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (If, But, And, Because, Etc.) |
| Article (Definite) | Introduces a noun or noun phrase, but implies that the subject introduced had already been mentioned |
| Article (Indefinite) | Introduces a noun or noun phrases, but implies that the thing referred to is nonspecific; a determiner |
| Transitive Verb | A verb that requires an object in order to be grammatical |
| Intransitive Verb | A verb that does not require an object in order to be grammatical |
| Pronoun | A word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse |
| Parantheses | A word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it (Curved brackets, dashes, or commas) |
| Past Tense | A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past |
| Present Tense | A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking |
| Future Tense | A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future |
| Progressive Tense | A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going |
| Perfect Tense | A tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed in one specific point in time or moment |
| Tense | A set of forms taken by a verb to indicate the time, continuance, or completeness of an action in relation to the time of utterance |
| Past Perfect Tense | A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past |
| Present Perfect Tense | A perfective tense used to express action completed in the present |
| Future Perfect Tense | A perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future |
| Present Progressive | A progressive tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance |
| Past Progressive | A progressive tense used to express on-going action in the past |
| Future Progressive | A progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future |
| Subject | A noun phrase functioning as one of the main components of a clause, being the element about which the rest of the clause is predicated |
| Predicate | The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject |
| Object | A noun or noun phrase governed by an active transitive verb or by a preposition |
| Hyphen | Used to join words to indicate that they have a combined meaning |
| First Person | A category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to the speaker |
| Second Person | A category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to the addressee |
| Third Person | A category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the third party |
| Suffix (Affix) | A morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative (-ation, -fy, -ing, -itis, etc.) |
| Prefix (Affix) | An element placed at the beginning of a word to adjust or qualify its meaning (ex-, non-, re-, etc.) |
| Direct Object | A noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is the recipient of the action of a transitive verb |
| Indirect Object | A noun phrase referring to someone or something that is affected by the action of a transitive verb, typically as a recipient, but is not the primary object |
| Participle | A word formed from a verb and used as an adjective |
| Infinitive | The simple or basic form of the verb used after a helping verb or an auxiliary verb |
| Gerund | A form that is derived form a verb but functions as a noun, in English ending in -ing |
| Semi-Colon | A punctuation mark (;) indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses; more pronounced than a comma |
| Dash | Used in a break in thought or to set and appositive off from the rest of the sentence |
| Interjection | Words or phrases used to exclaim or protest or command, may stand by themselves, but are often contained within larger structures |
| Count Noun | A noun that can form a plural and, in the singular, can be used with the indefinite article |
| Noncount Noun | A noun that only has a singular form that can describe a singular of an object or the mass of said object (Sheep, Moose, Pokemon, etc.) |
| Complement | One or more words, phrases, or clauses governed by a verb that completes the meaning of the predicate |
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