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A.
- adjective – “a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages and typically serving as a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the thing named, to indicate its quality or extent, or to specify a thing as distinct from something else”.[**]
- adverb – “a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages, typically serving as a modifier of a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a preposition, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence, expressing some relation of manner or quality, place, time, degree, number, cause, opposition, affirmation, or denial, and in English also serving to connect and to express comment on clause content”.[**]
- article – “any of a small set of words or affixes (as a, an, and the) used with nouns to limit or give definiteness to the application.”[**]
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N.
- noun – “any member of a class of words that typically can be combined with determiners to serve as the subject of a verb, can be interpreted as singular or plural, can be replaced with a pronoun, and refer to an entity, quality, state, action, or concept”.[**]
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P.
- plural – “of, relating to, or constituting a class fo grammatical forms usu. used to denote more than one or in some languages more than two”.[**]
- predicate – “the part of a sentence or clause that expresses what is said of the subject and that usu. consists of a verb with or without objects, complements, or adverbial modifiers”.[**]
- preposition – “a function word that typically combines with a noun phrase to form a phrase which usu. expresses a modification or predication”.[**]
- pronoun – “any of a small set of words in a language that are used as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases and whose referents are named or understood in the context”.[**]
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- singular – “of, relating to, or being a word form denoting one person, thing, or instance”.[**]
- subject – “a word or word group denoting that of which something is predicated”.[**]
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- tense – “a distinction of form in a verb to express distinctions of time or duration of the action or state it denotes.”[**]
- transliteration – “to represent or spell in the characters of another alphabet”.[**]
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V.
- verb – “a word that characteristically is the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or mode of being, that in various languages is inflected for agreement with the subject, for tense, for voice, for mood, or for aspect, and that typically has rather full descriptive meaning and characterizing quality but is sometimes nearly devoid of these esp. when used as an auxiliary or linking verb.”[**]
- voice – “distinction of form or a system of inflections of a verb to indicate the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses”.[**]
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Bibliography
[**] Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Eleventh ed. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 2014.
* – Updated 1/15/2019.
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