Sentence structure

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  1. 2. This could be a preposition, or it could be part of a prearticle.
  2. 4. What you embed subordinate clauses in, and what Neo goes back into
  3. 6. When you are not sure whether a word is a an adjective or a participle, try modifying it with this adverb.
  4. 7. The function of "that" within the relative clause in "Elephants are complex social animals that can feel compassion"
  5. 10. This New England intensifying adverb is also the title of a Broadway musical.
  6. 12. In "the baby wants picked up" and "you might should go", we see socially non-diagnostic, ___ verb patterns.
  7. 15. A verb that has become a noun but may still sort of behave as a verb
  8. 17. Typically, an infinitive phrase starts with this.
  9. 19. When you extrapose a noun clause, this word begins the resulting sentence.
  10. 20. This was proposed as a new gender-neutral pronoun in the 1970s, but it hasn't really taken off (according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it occurs less than once per million words).
  11. 23. One form of the indefinite article
  12. 25. It's surprising how frequently they are the ones carrying out the actions that passive sentences refer to.
  13. 27. This suffix can turn almost any adjective into a noun. It also occurs as part of a mythical Scottish monster.
  14. 28. At the end of some indefinite pronouns that refer to unspecified people
  15. 29. Relative determiner
  16. 31. Some people lost their minds when this became really prominent as an adverb meaning "approximately".
  17. 33. A clause that doesn't stand alone
  18. 36. Our textbook author uses the notation ___:FUNCTION (for example, NP:DObj)
  19. 38. What you do with a subordinate clause
  20. 39. It modifies nouns, but is not a determiner.
  21. 41. A restrictive relative clause can also be called this, because of its function.
  22. 43. Nodes and lines make up this type of visual representation of the structure of a sentence.
  23. 44. Once in a while, this is used instead of auxiliary BE to form a passive.
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  1. 1. A general term for any of the constituents that come after verbs
  2. 3. At the end of many adverbs and some adjectives
  3. 5. Together, the head noun of the subject noun phrase and the verb do this. It is also a synonym for "concur".
  4. 8. An ordinal number
  5. 9. Creating an imperative involves removing this modal auxiliary.
  6. 11. By definition, a clause contains at least one.
  7. 13. Abbreviation of "infinitive"
  8. 14. This can be a preposition or a subordinate conjunction. It is also the title of a 2019 film directed by Jenny Gage.
  9. 16. Midwesterners put a past participle right after this.
  10. 18. Some sentences have two meanings because a ___ phrase at the end can modify either the verb or a noun.
  11. 21. This pronoun was the American Dialect Society's "Word of the Decade" (for the 2010s)
  12. 22. This can be an interrogative pronoun, a relative pronoun, or a subordinate conjunction. It is also part of the name of a famous rock band from the 1960s.
  13. 24. It is exciting when a language gains new pronouns, because pronouns are a ___ class.
  14. 26. This suffix turns adjectives into verbs.
  15. 27. Every sentence in H. Jackson Brown's book "Live and learn and pass it on" contains this type of clause.
  16. 30. The past tense form of "have"
  17. 32. A defining characteristic of verbs is that they can have ___
  18. 34. Some people have trouble remembering how to spell this expletive.
  19. 35. This can introduce either a relative clause or a noun clause.
  20. 37. What you can do to a relative pronoun that is the direct object within the relative clause
  21. 38. At the end of a superlative adjective
  22. 40. At the end of a gerund or a present participle
  23. 42. At the end of the past participle form of a regular verb