English Language - Week 1 - Metalanguage

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Across
  1. 2. a word (such as an article, possessive, demonstrative, or quantifier) that makes specific the denotation of a noun phrase
  2. 6. any of a small set of words in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the context
  3. 7. a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages and typically serving as a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the thing named, to indicate its quantity or extent, or to specify a thing as distinct from something
  4. 9. an ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection
  5. 11. a verb (such as have, be, may, do, shall, will, can, or must) that is used with another verb to show the verb's tense, to form a question, etc.
  6. 12. a word that characteristically is the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or mode of being, that in various languages is inflected for agreement with the subject, for tense, for voice, for mood, or for aspect, and that
Down
  1. 1. an uninflected linguistic form that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words
  2. 3. any member of a class of words that typically can be combined with determiners to serve as the subject of a verb, can be interpreted as singular or plural, can be replaced with a pronoun, and refer to an entity, quality, state
  3. 4. a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages, typically serving as a modifier of a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a preposition, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence, expressing some relation of manner or quality,
  4. 5. a distinction of form in a verb to express distinctions of time or duration of the action or state it denotes
  5. 6. a function word that typically combines with a noun phrase to form a phrase which usually expresses a modification or predication
  6. 8. a word or expression (such as a form of be, become, feel, or seem) that links a subject with its predicate
  7. 10. a meaningful linguistic unit that is an item in the vocabulary of a language