Across
- 3. An adjective that usually comes before the noun it modifies without a linking verb.
- 5. A set expression of two or more words that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words.
- 7. A verbal--usually preceded by the particle to--that can function as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.
- 8. A process of word formation in which items are added to the base form of a word to express grammatical meanings.
- 12. A type of determiner that precedes a noun: a, an, or the.
- 13. The grammatical connection of two or more ideas to give them equal emphasis and importance.
- 15. The form of an adjective or adverb involving a comparison of more or less, greater or lesser.
- 16. A prefix, suffix, or infix: a word element (or morpheme) that can be attached to a base or root to form a new word.
- 17. A verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun.
- 19. A word or a group of words that introduces a noun.
- 20. The part of speech (or word class) that is primarily used to modify a verb and adjective.
- 22. The form of a word to which prefixes and suffixes are added to create new words
Down
- 1. Noun A noun (such as courage or freedom) that names an idea, event, quality, or concept.
- 2. A noun, noun phrase, or series of nouns used to identify or rename another noun, noun phrase, or pronoun.
- 3. A verb that determines the mood or tense of another verb in a verb phrase. Also known as a helping verb.
- 4. The part of speech (or word class) that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.
- 6. A shortened form of a word or group of words (such as doesn't and won't), with the missing letters usually marked by an apostrophe.
- 9. The omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader.
- 10. The part of speech (or word class) that modifies a noun or a pronoun.
- 11. A word or word group that completes the predicate in a sentence.
- 12. The correspondence of a verb with its subject in person and number, and of a pronoun with its antecedent in person, number, and gender.
- 14. A group of words that contains a subject and a predicate.
- 18. The set of rules and examples dealing with the syntax and word structures of a language.
- 19. A determiner that points to a particular noun or to the noun it replaces.
- 21. Writing metaphor simile grammar conjunctions SOLILOQUY
