Across
- 4. nouns: earliest words
- 5. form verb + ing
- 8. answers questions why
- 10. smallest unit of language that has meaning
- 11. person, place, things, or abstractions
- 15. the building blocks of a sentence
- 16. words that link ideas, phrases, or clauses
- 18. pronoun: refer back to noun or pronoun
- 19. compound word acting as an adverb
- 21. may be attributive and precede the noun
- 24. verb + ed or verb + en
- 29. answers questions about order and sequence
- 30. provides more information about a verb
Down
- 1. single word acting as an adverb
- 2. has _ tenses and _ aspects
- 3. acts like the verb “to be” but looks different
- 6. the way in which linguistic elements are put together to form constituents
- 7. assembly of phrases having its own subject and predicate
- 9. study and description of word formation in language
- 12. pronoun: are used to ask most wh- questions
- 13. processes of communicating a message
- 14. form to + be
- 17. a set of words that is complete in itself
- 20. answers questions to what degree or how much
- 22. forms: there are three of these
- 23. answers questions where
- 25. answers questions when or how long
- 26. are function words, replace noun
- 27. answers questions how or is what way
- 28. muscle of the utterance