Grammar Terms

3. any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference.
8. a noun, as herd, jury, or clergy, that appears singular in formal shape but denotes a group of persons or objects.
10. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command or exclamation.
11. a noun that may be preceded by an article or other limiting modifier and that denotes any or all of a class of entities and not an individual.

1. any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.
2. any member of a class of words expressing emotion, distinguished in most languages by their use in grammatical isolation.
4. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying.
5. a noun that is used to denote a particular person, place, or thing.
6. any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship.
7. any member of a class of words that function as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, as modifiers of adjectives, other adverbs or adverbial phrases.
9. any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.