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adjective.used to qualify a.noun; good, every, mimic, etc. (good vehicle; every bird; mimic a clown)

adverb.used to modify a verb, adjective or other adverb by expressing time, place manner, degree, cause, etc. (she is alluringly dressed)

antonym.noun,.plural.antonyms.a word having a meaning opposite to that of another word (the word wet is an antonym of the word dry; the word hot is an antonym of the word cold)

case.noun,.plural.cases
in the grammar of many languages, the case of a group such as a noun group or adjective group is the form it has which shows its relationship to other groups in the sentence; the syntactic relationship of a noun, a pronoun or a determiner to the other words of a sentence, indicated by declensional endings, by the position of the words within the sentence, by prepositions or by postpositions; the form or position of a word that indicates this relationship; such forms, positions and relationships considered as a group; a pattern of inflection of nouns, pronouns and adjectives to express different syntactic functions in a sentence; the form of such an inflected word

conjugate, conjugated, conjugating, conjugates.transitive verbs
Grammar:.to inflect a verb in its forms for distinctions such as number, person, voice, mood and tense
conjugation.noun
the inflected form of a particular verb; a presentation of the complete set of inflected forms of a verb

conjunction.a part of speech such as and, but, as, nor and because that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses or sentences

conjunctive.adjective
joining; connective; joined together; combined (the conjunctive focus of political opposition)
Grammar:.of, relating.to.or.being a conjunction; serving to connect elements of meaning and construction within sentences, as and and since or between sentences, as therefore

copula.a copula is a.verb, such as a form of 'be', 'being' or 'seem', 'seeming' that identifies the predicate of a sentence with the subject; also called linking verb; the word or set of words that serves as a link between the subject and predicate of a proposition-(which is a statement in which the subject is affirmed or denied by the predicate)
copular.adjective

enclitic.a word or particle that has no independent accent and forms an accentual and sometimes also graphemic unit with the preceding word; forming an accentual unit with the preceding word and thus having no independent accent (in Give 'em the works, the pronoun 'em is an enclitic)

epenthesis.noun,.plural.epentheses
Linguistics:.the insertion of a sound in the middle of a word, as in Middle English 'thunder' from Old English 'thunor'
epenthetic.adjective

genitive.adjective
Grammar:
in the grammar of some languages, the genitive or the genitive case, is a noun case which is used mainly to show possession; in English grammar, a noun or name with 's added to it, for example 'dog's' or 'Anne's', is sometimes called the genitive form; of, relating.to.or.designating a case that expresses possession, measurement or source; of, relating.to an affix or a construction, such as a prepositional.phrase, characteristic of the genitive case
genitive.noun,.plural.genitives
the genitive case; a form or construction in this case

grammar.noun
the study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences; the study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning and linguistic history; the system of inflections, syntax and word formation of a language; the system of rules.implicit in a language, viewed as a mechanism for generating all sentences possible in that language; writing or speech judged with regard to such a set of rules as Noam Chomsky learned about all his life
grammarian.noun,.plural.grammarians
a specialist in grammar

grammatical.adjective
of or relating to grammar; conforming to the rules of grammar (a grammatical sentence)
grammatically.adverb
grammaticality.noun

indefinite pronoun.a pronoun, such as English any or some, that does not specify the identity of its object

infinitive.a verb form that functions as a substantive while retaining certain verbal characteristics, such as modification by adverbs and that in English may be preceded by to, as in To go willingly is to show strength or We want him to work harder or may also occur without to, as in She had them read the letter or We may finish today; split infinitive.an infinitive verb form with an element, usually an adverb, interposed between to and the verb form, as in to boldly go

inflected form.to use inflections in altering the form of a word, signaling change in tense, voice, mood, person, gender, number or case

metonymy.noun,.plural.metonymies
a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of 'sword' for 'words':.Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12
metonymic.or.metonymical.adjective
metonymically.adverb

mood.a set of verb forms or inflections used to indicate the speaker's attitude toward the factuality or likelihood of the action or condition expressed; in English the indicative mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood and the imperative mood to express a command.

noun.words which name things, such as, a 'boy' is a noun, so is water and truth, cars, clothes, etc.; nouns are just names of things, whereas a verbdenotes action of those things, such as the boy threw the ball, where 'threw' is a verb which both the boy and the ball were affected by; also see pronoun

collective noun.a noun that denotes a collection of persons or things regarded as a unit

participle.noun,.plural.participles
Grammar:.a form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective, as the past participle-baked-in 'We had some baked beans' and is used with an auxiliary verb to indicate tense, aspect or voice, as the past participle-baked-in the passive sentence 'The beans were baked too long.'

The 'dangling participle' is quite common in speech, where it often passes unremarked; but its use in writing can lead to unintentional absurdities, as in 'He went to watch his horse take a turn around the track carrying a copy of the breeders' guide under his arm.' 

Even when the construction occasions no ambiguity, it is likely to distract the reader, who will ordinarily be operating on the assumption that a participle or other modifying phrase will be associated with the noun.phrase that is immediately adjacent to it.

Thus the sentence 'Turning the corner, the view was quite different', would be better rewritten as 'The view was quite different when we turned the corner' or 'Turning the corner, we saw a different view'.

A number of expressions originally derived from active participles are now well established as prepositions of a kind and these may be used freely to introduce phrases that are not associated with the immediately adjacent noun phrase. Such expressions include concerning, considering, failing, granting, judging by and speaking of. Thus one may write 'Speaking of politics, the elections have been postponed' or 'Considering the hour, it is surprising that he arrived at all'.

past participle.also called perfect participle
a verb form indicating past or completed action or time that is used as a verbal adjective in phrases such as 'baked beans' and 'finished' and with auxiliaries to form the passive-voice or perfect and pluperfect-tenses in constructions such as 'She had baked the beans' and 'The work was finished'. 

particle.noun,.plural.particles
Grammar, Linguistics:.an item not inflected; an item that has grammatical function but does not clearly belong to one of the major parts of speech, such as up in look up or to in English infinitives; in some systems of grammatical analysis, any short function word, including articles, prepositions and conjunctions

dative.adjective
of, relating to or being the grammatical case that in some Indo-European languages, such as Latin and Russian, as well as in some non-Indo-European languages, marks the recipient of action and is used with prepositions or other function words corresponding in meaning to English 'to' and 'for'
dative.noun
the dative case; a word or form in the dative case; from datus, past participle of dare, to give
datively.adverb

expletive.an exclamation; a word or phrase that does not contribute any meaning but is added only to fill out a sentence; a word that stands in place of and anticipates a following word or phrase; in the sentence 'There are many books on the table', the word 'there' functions as an expletive
expletive.adjective
added or inserted in order to fill out something, such as a sentence

first form.(or first entity or first.person).noun.(why not to use the word 'person')
a category of linguistic forms, such as verbs and pronouns, designating the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they appear, the first form being the action done by the one speaking or writing (a novelwritten in this first form); a statement.in the first place or form or position is one 'speaking as the first one' and is a statement about yourself or about yourself and someone else; the 'first one' is the subject of a statement using 'I', 'me' or 'we' (when he tells a story, he tells the story as the first one, such as 'Let 'me' tell you a story about the time 'we' walked the path up the mountain ...'); words 'I', 'me' or 'we' show that you are the one of what you are telling somone; a first one narrative would be a story written or spoken from the first one position (commonly known but not correctly as 'the first person'), that is it's all about the one in the story describing what his or her story is about)
second form.(or second entity or second.person).noun
the second form is used is in referring to the person addressed; a statement as if one is speaking as one in the second form or position and is a statement about someone or people that you are talking to, where the subject of a statement such as this is 'I' or 'you' (I was earlier speaking about healthful matters we should consider)
third form.(third entity or third.person).noun
in grammar, a statement in the third for, entity or person is a statement about another entity or thing and not directly about yourself or about the person you are talking to; the subject of a statement like this is 'he', 'she', 'it' or a name or noun used and are pronouns of the third form of speaking (I heard she got a new vehicle; they are going to the mountains for the weekend); the third form is used in referring to a person or thing other than the speaker or the one spoken to (I was talking with her and she said he would be coming to the beach with us); a statement in the third form is a statement about another one or thing and not directly about yourself or about the person you are talking to
Usage note for the three forms: in the second and third forms, when the word 'would' may be used (if he had known that, he 'would' {not 'should'} have answered differently); the word 'would' cannot always be substituted for 'should', but the word 'should' can be used in all three forms; See more Usage notes

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