What is GRAMMAR?

3. A grammatical unit consisting of a word or a group of words that is separate from any other grammatical construction and contains at least one subject with its predicate and a finite verb or verb phrase.
5. A word that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object.
6. An expression of inquiry that requires or invites an informative reply.
7. A play on words, or different senses of the same word.
8. A grammatical form that designates only one of the thing specified.
9. A group of words having a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
12. A sudden forceful utterance.
15. A noun or substantive that receives or is affected by the action of a verb within a sentence.
18. A part of speech made up of exclamatory words or expressions capable of standing alone.
23. A part of speech comprising a class of words that modifies a verb.
24. A word phrase or clause that qualifies the sense of another word or word group.
26. The part of speech that expresses action or existence.
27. A grammatical form that designates more than one of the things specified.
29. Denoting a verb tense or form that expresses current time.

1. A word that functions as a substitute for nouns or noun phrases.
2. A verbal form that functions as a noun.
4. The part of a sentence or clause that states something about the subject.
7. A word that shows the relation between a substantive and a verb, an adjective, or another substantive.
10. A word or phrase in a sentence that denotes the doer of the action.
11. participle The verb part that is used with the helping verbs has, have, and had.
13. A sentence containing one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
14. Any of a class or words used to modify a noun by limiting, qualifying, or specifying.
16. A word or group of words read or spoken as a unit and separated by pauses or other junctures.
17. One of the inflected forms in the conjugation of a verb that indicates the time as well as the continuance or completion of the action or state.
19. The parts of speech that connect other words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.
20. A verb form functioning as a substantive while retaining certain verbal characteristics as modification by adverbs, and that in English may be preceded by to.
21. The opposite of something positive.
22. An authoritative order or direction.
25. An affix appended to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending.
28. To put or fix before.