What is GRAMMAR?

2. A word phrase or clause that qualifies the sense of another word or word group.
5. A part of speech comprising a class of words that modifies a verb.
6. A sudden forceful utterance.
7. Denoting a verb tense or form that expresses current time.
8. A group of words having a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
10. A play on words, or different senses of the same word.
13. A part of speech made up of exclamatory words or expressions capable of standing alone.
14. An expression of inquiry that requires or invites an informative reply.
15. A verbal form that functions as a noun.
16. 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.
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.
20. A word that functions as a substitute for nouns or noun phrases.
21. A word or group of words read or spoken as a unit and separated by pauses or other junctures.
23. The part of speech that expresses action or existence.
25. A grammatical form that designates more than one of the things specified.

1. Any of a class or words used to modify a noun by limiting, qualifying, or specifying.
3. A noun or substantive that receives or is affected by the action of a verb within a sentence.
4. The parts of speech that connect other words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.
7. The part of a sentence or clause that states something about the subject.
8. A sentence containing one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
9. A word that shows the relation between a substantive and a verb, an adjective, or another substantive.
10. participle The verb part that is used with the helping verbs has, have, and had.
11. A grammatical form that designates only one of the thing specified.
12. The opposite of something positive.
18. A word that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object.
19. A word or phrase in a sentence that denotes the doer of the action.
20. To put or fix before.
22. An authoritative order or direction.
24. An affix appended to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending.
25. 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.