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- 2. This could be a preposition, or it could be part of a prearticle.
- 4. What you embed subordinate clauses in, and what Neo goes back into
- 6. When you are not sure whether a word is a an adjective or a participle, try modifying it with this adverb.
- 7. The function of "that" within the relative clause in "Elephants are complex social animals that can feel compassion"
- 10. This New England intensifying adverb is also the title of a Broadway musical.
- 12. In "the baby wants picked up" and "you might should go", we see socially non-diagnostic, ___ verb patterns.
- 15. A verb that has become a noun but may still sort of behave as a verb
- 17. Typically, an infinitive phrase starts with this.
- 19. When you extrapose a noun clause, this word begins the resulting sentence.
- 20. This was proposed as a new gender-neutral pronoun in the 1970s, but it hasn't really taken off (according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it occurs less than once per million words).
- 23. One form of the indefinite article
- 25. It's surprising how frequently they are the ones carrying out the actions that passive sentences refer to.
- 27. This suffix can turn almost any adjective into a noun. It also occurs as part of a mythical Scottish monster.
- 28. At the end of some indefinite pronouns that refer to unspecified people
- 29. Relative determiner
- 31. Some people lost their minds when this became really prominent as an adverb meaning "approximately".
- 33. A clause that doesn't stand alone
- 36. Our textbook author uses the notation ___:FUNCTION (for example, NP:DObj)
- 38. What you do with a subordinate clause
- 39. It modifies nouns, but is not a determiner.
- 41. A restrictive relative clause can also be called this, because of its function.
- 43. Nodes and lines make up this type of visual representation of the structure of a sentence.
- 44. Once in a while, this is used instead of auxiliary BE to form a passive.
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- 1. A general term for any of the constituents that come after verbs
- 3. At the end of many adverbs and some adjectives
- 5. Together, the head noun of the subject noun phrase and the verb do this. It is also a synonym for "concur".
- 8. An ordinal number
- 9. Creating an imperative involves removing this modal auxiliary.
- 11. By definition, a clause contains at least one.
- 13. Abbreviation of "infinitive"
- 14. This can be a preposition or a subordinate conjunction. It is also the title of a 2019 film directed by Jenny Gage.
- 16. Midwesterners put a past participle right after this.
- 18. Some sentences have two meanings because a ___ phrase at the end can modify either the verb or a noun.
- 21. This pronoun was the American Dialect Society's "Word of the Decade" (for the 2010s)
- 22. This can be an interrogative pronoun, a relative pronoun, or a subordinate conjunction. It is also part of the name of a famous rock band from the 1960s.
- 24. It is exciting when a language gains new pronouns, because pronouns are a ___ class.
- 26. This suffix turns adjectives into verbs.
- 27. Every sentence in H. Jackson Brown's book "Live and learn and pass it on" contains this type of clause.
- 30. The past tense form of "have"
- 32. A defining characteristic of verbs is that they can have ___
- 34. Some people have trouble remembering how to spell this expletive.
- 35. This can introduce either a relative clause or a noun clause.
- 37. What you can do to a relative pronoun that is the direct object within the relative clause
- 38. At the end of a superlative adjective
- 40. At the end of a gerund or a present participle
- 42. At the end of the past participle form of a regular verb