Across
- 1. a type of modifier that describes a noun or a pronoun
- 4. a mood, used in dependent clauses that follow independent clauses, that express wishes, demands, or conditions that are improbable, doubtful, or contrary to fact; often reflects fantasizing and hypothesizing
- 6. a word derived from a verb; includes infinitives, gerunds, and participles
- 8. the present participle form of a verb used as a noun
- 11. a be verb used as a copula that cannot be contracted in a clause or sentence due to the loss of or unclear meaning.
- 12. a class of modifiers that provides information about verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs; provides information about place, manner, time, degree, reason, number, affirmation, and negation; many are formed by adding –ly to a word stem.
- 15. a modifier that clarifies aspects of a noun; cannot exist outside of a noun phrase; major categories include articles, possessive pronouns and nouns, demonstratives, quantifiers, and wh- words
- 17. a verb form that is the bare stem of a verb preceded by “to”
- 20. the information contained in the verb of a clause or sentence that denotes who or what is completing the action
- 21. a verb form created by adding –ing, -d, or –ed to a verb stem
- 22. the voice of a verb is modified to indicate whether a subject is doing the action or receiving the action in a clause or sentence; can be active or passive
- 23. the smallest unit of meaning in a language
- 24. a word or group of words that follows copular verbs and provides further information about the subject
- 25. a pronoun that replaces a noun in a clause or sentence
Down
- 2. a syntactic structure that contains a subject and predicate; is either independent or dependent
- 3. a noun that refers to a countable entity
- 5. a major sentence element following the subject slot that is made up of the verb and other constituents following it; describes the action, state, or condition that is stated, asked, ordered, or exclaimed by the use of a verb
- 7. the noun to which a pronoun refers, also referred to as the referent
- 9. information depicted by the verb in a clause or sentence that refers to time
- 10. an action word in a sentence; describes what is done to a noun or pronoun or describes a state of being or existence
- 13. a clause that contains a subject and a predicate but must be combined with an independent clause to form a sentence; is typically introduced by a subordinating conjunction or a relative pronoun
- 14. one of the determiners a, an, or the; is either definite or indefinite
- 16. a phrase that is the main structure of a predicate and includes the main verb of the sentence or clause and any auxiliary forms attached, as well as any modifiers
- 18. a verb tense that denotes actions or states of being that occurred in the past
- 19. a sentence type that has an overall function of making a request or giving an order