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present participle.noun.plural.present
participles
Grammar: a participle
expressing present action, formed in English by the infinitive
plus -ing and used to express present action in relation to the time indicated
by the finite verb in its clause, to form progressive tenses with the auxiliary
'be' and 'to' function as a verbal.adjective
intensive.adjective
Grammar: tending
to emphasize
or intensify
(an intensive adverb); examples (this is sure a 'fine'
day; kept 'right' on going; and you'll receive 'even' more)
intensive.noun,.plural.intensives
Grammar: a linguistic
element, such as the adverb extremely or awfully, that provides force or
emphasis; also called intensifier
singular.adjective
Grammar: of,
relating.to.or.being
a noun, pronoun or adjective denoting
a single person or thing or several
entities
considered as a single
unit (a singular
verb)
singularise.verb
distinguish
as singular
singular.noun
the singular number or a form,
such as a word designating
it; a word having a singular number (the number one, for example)
subjunctive.adjective
of,
relating.to.or.being
a mood of a verb used in some languages
for contingent or hypothetical action, action viewed subjectively or grammatically
subordinate statements (if this is done, then this action will probably
follow)
subjunctive.noun,.plural.subjunctives
the subjunctive mood
preterit or preterite.adjective
Grammar: of, relating
to or being the verb tense that describes a past action or state
preterit.noun
the verb form expressing or describing a past
action or condition; a verb in the preterit form
prefix,
prefixed,
prefixing,
prefixes.transitive
verbs
to put or attach before or in front of, such as
in the word cytotoxic, the 'cyto'
part of the word is the prefix, affixed
to the part of the word that comes after it
Grammar: to add as
a prefix; to add a prefix to; to preface
prefix.noun,.plural.prefixes
an
affix,
such as 'dis-' in the word 'disbelieve' or 'para-' in 'parapsychology',
put before a word to produce a derivative
word or an inflected form
suffix.noun,.plural.suffixes
Grammar: an affix
added to the end of a word, serving to form a new word or functioning as
an inflectional ending, such
as -ness in gentleness, -ing in walking, -s in sits, -fer' in aquifer and
so on
suffix,
suffixed,
suffixing,
suffixes.transitive
verbs
to add as a suffix
suffixion.noun,.plural.suffixions
suffixal.adjective
semicolon.noun
a mark of punctuation (;) used to connect independent
clauses
and indicating a closer relationship between the clauses than a period
does
base.noun
Linguistics: a
morpheme
or morphemes regarded as a form to which affixes
or other bases may be added
stem.noun
Linguistics: the
main part of a word to which affixes
are added
root.noun
Linguistics: the
element that carries the main component of meaning in a word and provides
the basis from which a word is derived
by adding affixes or inflectional
endings or by phonetic-change;
such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage-(a
language that is the recorded or hypothetical
ancestor of another language or group of languages); also called radical
conditional.adjective
a mood,
tense,
clause
or word expressing a condition
condition.noun
the dependent clause
of a conditional sentence
quotation mark.noun
either of a pair of punctuation
marks used to mark the beginning and end of a passage attributed to another
and repeated word for word, such as;
they appear in the form of double quotation marks (" ") and single quotation
marks (' ') where single quotation marks are often used for emphasis
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