Grammar terminology
Across
- 6. a large and structured set of texts (nowadays usually electronically stored and processed)
- 7. a collection of texts organized with the key word aligned in the middle to highlight the environment or context of a word
- 9. a type of word used in front of common nouns which affect the meaning of the noun; these words make it clear, for example, which particular thing(s) we are referring to or how much of a substance we are talking about
- 10. a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree
- 11. a type of word that shows possession and must always be used in front of a noun, e.g. my, your, his, her etc.
- 13. a type of pronoun that refers to the subject after many verbs, including verbs with dependent prepositions: Politicians have to believe in themselves if they want to convince voters.
- 14. a construction in which possession is indicated by the preposition of followed by the possessive form of a noun or pronoun, as in a friend of Eric's
- 15. a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words, e.g. over the moon
Down
- 1. a preposition that comes on its own at the end of a clause or sentence; its object comes earlier in the sentence.
- 2. a verb that does not require an object to complete its meaning
- 3. a verb that is made up of a main verb together with an adverb and a preposition, e.g. We look forward to hearing from you.
- 4. the simplest kind of information available from corpus analysis
- 5. a verb that is made up of a main verb together with a particle; typically, their meaning is not obvious from the meanings of the individual words themselves.
- 8. a verb that requires one or more objects
- 12. a type of word used before a noun to specify the amount or quantity