Across
- 3. When one part of speech functions as another.
- 6. You believe in strength, structure, and sanity offered by standard English rules.
- 7. A punctuation mark for showing possession.
- 10. When speakers omit consonants, vowels, or whole syllables from words.
Down
- 1. You enjoy building and solving crossword puzzles.
- 2. You believe that unruly language is in its purest and loveliest form.
- 4. To turn adjectives or verbs into nouns.
- 5. Words or phrases that are commonly misheard.
- 8. Inversion of word order.
- 9. Interrupting whole words with other words for emphasis, humor, or other effect.