Comparative Grammar Review

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Across
  1. 3. The smallest meaningful unit in a language.
  2. 4. The system of rules that governs the structure of sentences in a language, including syntax, morphology, and phonology.
  3. 6. The type of grammar that describes the use of language in a context.
  4. 8. Es un concepto que se refiere a la clasificación de fenómenos en dos categorías distintas y opuestas. En gramática, puede referirse a distinciones binarias como singular/plural, masculino/femenino, o afirmativo/negativo.
  5. 14. A suffix that modifies a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, and case without changing the word’s meaning or part of speech, like adding “-s” to form plurals.
  6. 15. It contains the main meaning of a word. It can be free or bound.
Down
  1. 1. A grammatical category that expresses count distinctions (such as singular, plural, dual) in nouns, pronouns, and verbs.
  2. 2. The type of grammar that establishes the set of rules and norms that dictate how a language should be used, prescribing what is considered “correct” or “proper.”
  3. 5. A type of suffix that changes the meaning or part of speech of the base word to which it is attached, such as adding “-ness” to “happy” to form “happiness.”
  4. 7. Es la parte central de una palabra que lleva el significado principal y que puede ser una palabra por sí misma.
  5. 9. A general term for a morpheme that is attached to a base word to change its meaning or function. This includes prefixes, suffixes, infixes, and circumfixes.
  6. 10. A type of affix that is added to the beginning of a base word to alter its meaning, such as “un-” in “unhappy.”
  7. 11. A grammatical category that classifies nouns, pronouns, and sometimes adjectives into classes, often labeled as masculine, feminine, or neuter
  8. 12. A type of affix that is added to the end of a base word to change its meaning or grammatical function, such as “-ed” in “walked.”
  9. 13. A grammatical category that expresses the syntactic or semantic relationship of a noun, pronoun, or adjective to other elements in the sentence. Examples include nominative, accusative, and genitive cases.