Comparative adjective: Compare two things, people, or places unlike positive adjectives which stand alone and do not make comparisons between nouns.
Complement: the part of a sentence that comes after the verb and is needed to make the sentence complete.
Compound word: Compound words are formed when two or more words are put together to form a new word with a new meaning. They can function as different parts of speech, which can dictate what form the compound takes on.
Conjunctions (coordinating/subordinating): A word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.
Contraction: A shortened form of a word or group of words, with the missing letters usually marked by an apostrophe.
Conversion: A linguistic process that assigns an already existing word to a new word class (part of speech) or syntactic category.
Declarative sentence: A sentence in the form of a statement (in contrast to a command, a question, or an exclamation).
Demonstratives: Indicates whether something is near or far from the speaker or writer and also shows singular or plural.
Determiner: A word or a group of words that introduces a noun. Determiners include articles, demonstratives, quantifiers, and possessive determiners. Determiners are functional elements of structure.
Double negative: A non-standard form using two negatives for emphasis where only one is necessary.
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