Morphology and Syntax Crossword puzzle
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- 3. A part of speech that carries information about tense and number. (finite)
- 7. A type of modifier that describes a noun or pronoun. (adjective)
- 9. A class of words that provides additional information about nouns, pronouns and verbs; is generally either an adjective or an adverb. (modifier)
- 10. A clause contains a subject and a ----------. (predicate)
- 12. A connecting word, in particular a form of the verb be connecting a subject and complement. (copula)
- 14. A helping verb is linked to or combined with a main verb to provide additional information about a person, tense or ----------. (mood)
- 15. A word that represent a person, place, thing or idea. (noun)
- 17. An antecedent is also referred to as a ----------. (referent)
- 18. A verbal is derived from a verb that includes gerunds, particles and ----------. (infinitives)
- 20. The present participle form of a verb used as an noun. (gerund)
- 23. A syntactic structure that contains a subject and a predicate; is either independent or dependent. (clause)
- 25. A word that has a general, unstated referent can function as a pronoun or a limiting adjective. (indefinite)
- 26. A word or group of words that follows copular verbs and provides further information about the subject. For example, "she is pretty." (complement)
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- 1. The noun to which a pronoun refers. (antecedent)
- 2. A verb form created by adding -ing, -d, or ed to a verb stem. (participle)
- 4. An article is either definite or ----------. (indefinite)
- 5. A word that links a noun or pronoun to another sentence element by expressing direction, location, time, or figurative location usually serves as the first word in a prepositional phrase. (preposition)
- 6. A syntactic structure that contains one or more words but does not contain both a subject and a verb. (phrase)
- 8. a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has. (determiner)
- 11. A quantifier is a type of determiner that provides additional information about a noun regarding ----------. (quantity)
- 13. A part of speech that does not carry information specific to tense or number. (nonfinite)
- 16. A word or words that serve to join other words, phrases and clauses; is generally one of three classes: coordinating, subordinating or correlative. (conjunction)
- 19. clause, A sentence contains at least one ---------- with one complete thought. (independent clause)
- 21. Either the recipient of an action in a clause or sentence or an object that indicates who or what is the beneficiary of an action in a clause or sentence. (object)
- 22. The state or quality of being intricate or complicated. (complexity)
- 24. A nominal clause always contains a ----------. (subject)