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  1. 4. Also called diathesis of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.).
  2. 5. A non-finite verb form used to make a verb phrase that can serve in place of a noun phrase.
  3. 6. A noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete subsets.
  4. 8. A word (or prefix or suffix) that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.
  5. 10. A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. A complex sentence is often used to make clear which ideas are most important, and which ideas are subordinate.
  6. 13. Another term for auxiliary verb
  7. 14. A type of sentence that gives advice or instructions or that expresses a request or command.
  8. 15. An incomplete piece of a sentence used alone as a complete sentence; a fragment does not contain a complete thought; fragments are common in normal speech but unusual (inappropriate) in formal writing
  9. 17. A grammatical unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked. A sentence can include words grouped meaningfully to express a statement, question, exclamation, request, command or suggestion.
  10. 18. A part of speech that connects two words, sentencclause smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition.
  11. 19. A figure of speech that directly compares two things through some connective, usually "like", "as", "than", or a verb such as "resembles".
  12. 23. A sentence used to make a statement.
  13. 24. A word that changes or qualifies the meaning of a verb, adjective, other adverb, clause, sentence or any other word or phrase, except that it does not include the adjectives and determiners that directly modify nouns.
  14. 26. A verb that has no direct object.
  15. 27. Form of a pronoun based on its relationship to other words in the sentence.
  16. 29. Links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in asentence.
  17. 30. Form of an adjective or adverb made with "-er" or "more" that is used to show differences or similarities between two things.
  18. 34. Rhetorical device, literary technique, or event characterized by an incongruity, or contrast, between reality (what is) and appearance (what seems to be).
  19. 36. Modifier,an ambiguous grammatical construct, often considered an error in prescriptivist accounts of English, whereby agrammatical modifier could be misinterpreted as being associated with a word other than the one intended, or with no particular word at all.
  20. 37. A grammatical category expressing the time when a state or action denoted by a verb occurs
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  1. 1. Refer to any group of words. In linguistics, a phrase is a group of words (or sometimes a single word) that form a constituent and so function as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence.
  2. 2. Used in a clause whose subject expresses the agent of the main verb. That is, the subject does the action designated by the verb.
  3. 3. A pronoun that refers to one or more unspecified beings, objects, or places.
  4. 7. A grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side, with one element serving to define or modify the other.
  5. 8. A noun, noun phrase, or clause to which an anaphor refers in a coreference.
  6. 9. Use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally.
  7. 11. Figure of speech , giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas).
  8. 12. A word or form that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase.
  9. 16. A figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.
  10. 20. A word used to express an emotion or sentiment on the part of the speaker (although most interjections have clear definitions). An interjection is sometimes expressed as a single word or non-sentence phrase, followed by a punctuation mark.
  11. 21. phrases or clauses together.
  12. 22. A type of auxiliary (helping) verb that is used to express: ability, possibility, permission or obligation.
  13. 25. Verbs that do not express action. Instead, they connect the subject of the verb to additional information about the subject.
  14. 28. A type of noun that refers to something with which a person cannot physically interact.
  15. 29. Form of a verb that is used in a sentence to modify a noun or noun phrase, and thus plays a role similar to that of an adjective or adverb
  16. 31. Part of speech that typically describes or "modifies" a noun.
  17. 32. A word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action, an occurrence or a state of being.
  18. 33. The quality of a verb that conveys the writer's attitude toward a subject.
  19. 35. A kind of voice, when the subject is the patient, target or undergoer of the action,
  20. 38. A part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea.