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the form of a noun or pronoun that shows that it is the direct object of a verb

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a word or phrase that adds information to a sentence. In “I put the box on the table,” “on the table” is an adjunct.

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one of the forms that a morpheme can have. For example, the plural ending “-s” has three allomorphs: /s/, /z/, and /iz/, as in the words “trucks,” “cars,” and “buses.”

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one of the slightly different ways that a phoneme can be pronounced. For example, the /p/ in the word “pill” is slightly different from the /p/ in the word “spill.”

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the antecedent of a word is the noun or phrase nearer the beginning of the sentence that it refers to. In the sentence “I threw the keys to him and he caught them,” “keys” is the antecedent of “them.”

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a type of determiner (=word used before a noun) that shows whether you are referring to a particular thing or to a general example of something. The indefinite article is “a” or “an” and the definite article is “the.”

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a form of a noun, adjective, or pronoun in some languages that shows its relationship in grammar to other words in a sentence

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a group of words that includes a verb and a subject and is a sentence or a main part of a sentence

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a sentence that starts with a pronoun such as “it” or “that” and the verb “to be” in order to emphasize the next word, which is followed by another clause, for example “It’s you I wanted to talk to.” or “That’s my seat you’re in.”

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a word that is often used with another word

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a collocate2

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a form of a word that has its own meaning but is used only in combination with other words to make new words, for example -footed in “a four-footed animal”

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a word or phrase after a verb, especially the verb “to be,” that tells you about the subject. For example, in “He was cold,” “he” is the subject, “was” is the verb, and “cold” is the complement. In “He was a nice man,” the complement is “a nice man.”

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a part of a sentence that usually begins with “although,” “though,” or “while” and contains a fact or idea that seems to oppose the information in the rest of the sentence

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a clause that is a main part of a sentence and is as important as another main part. Co-ordinate clauses are connected by words such as “and,” “but,” or “or.”

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the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that you use in some languages when it is the indirect object of a verb

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a group of nouns, adjectives, or pronouns in some languages that all change their form in the same way depending on their relationship to other words in a sentence

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the word “the” in English, or a similar type of word in another language

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the use of words or phrases such as “you,” “there,” or “last month” whose meaning depends on the situation in which they are used

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a clause in a sentence that gives more information about the main clause but cannot exist without it

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the exact words that someone has said. In writing, they are shown inside quotation marks.

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direct discourse

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words such as “however” or “furthermore” that provide a connection between ideas in written language

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the gender of a word is whether it is masculine, feminine, or neuter. In English, only pronouns like “he” and “she” and possessive determiners like “his” and “her” have gender, but in other languages such as French all nouns, pronouns, etc. have gender.

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the word “a” or “an” in the English language, or a word in another language that is used in a similar way

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a part of a sentence that can exist on its own as a separate sentence

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the words you use to report what someone else has said, for example “She said that we must leave.”

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the words that you use to report a question that someone else has asked, for example “She asked me where I was going.”

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indirect discourse

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the form of a word that is not the basic form

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a word or phrase used for expressing a strong emotion such as surprise or anger. “Oh” and “ouch” are interjections.

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a word or phrase that you use for asking a question, for example “what?” or “how?”

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a word or group of words that has a meaning that cannot be understood from the meaning of the parts of which it consists

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a word or expression used in a language that has been translated from another language

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the form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective that you use in some languages when you are talking about where someone or something is

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a word or phrase, especially one used by people in a particular area or from a particular group

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a clause that can be a sentence on its own

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a word or form of a word that belongs to the masculine group of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives

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a pair of words that are different from each other in one sound only, for example pan and can

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a word or phrase that adds to the meaning of another word or phrase by giving more information about it

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the smallest unit of meaning in a language. A morpheme can be a whole word, for example “the,” or part of a word, for example “un” in “unable.”

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exactly the right word or phrase

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a word or expression that means “no”

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the form of a word that shows whether you are referring to one thing or more than one thing

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a noun, pronoun, or phrase that is affected in a direct way by the action of a verb, for example “the report” in “I’ve read the report.”

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a noun, pronoun, or phrase that is affected in an indirect way by the action of a verb, for example “me” in “Give me the pen.”

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a noun, pronoun, or phrase that comes after a preposition, for example “the bed” in “He was lying on the bed.”

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the complete set of the different forms of a word, for example student, student’s, students, and students’

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a word or expression used for showing that only part of something is being referred to, instead of all of it. In the sentence “Have a piece of cake,” “a piece of” is a partitive.

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a group of words that form a unit within a clause (=a group of words containing a subject and verb)

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plural

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a word or form used for referring to more than one person or thing. For example “students” is the plural of “student,” and “mice” is the plural of “mouse.”

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the state of being plural

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possessive

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a possessive word or form of a word

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a word that can come before a determiner (=a word such as “a,” “the,” “his,” or “this”), and gives more information about a noun. In the phrases “all my fingers” and “half a loaf,” the words “all” and “half” are predeterminers.

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the part of the sentence that contains the verb and its object or complements and gives more information about the subject, for example “was combing her hair” in the sentence “Francesca was combing her hair.”

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a phrase consisting of a preposition and the noun or pronoun that comes after it, for example “in the car” or “near her”

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a modifier

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a word or phrase such as “much” or “a few” that is used with another word to show quantity

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a word or phrase such as “isn’t it?” or “haven’t you?” that you can add to a sentence to make a question

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a clause joined to a previous one by words such as “who,” “which,” or “that.” Relative clauses give extra information about a person or thing in a sentence.

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the words that you use to report what someone else has said, for example “He said we shouldn’t leave town”

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a part of a sentence that is added in order to make clear which particular person or thing in a group you are talking about. For example, in the sentence “The boys who arrived late sat at the back of the class,” “who arrived late” is a restrictive relative clause.

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a sentence in which two main clauses are connected without any conjunctions, or without the correct punctuation

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a group of words, usually including a subject and a verb, that express a statement, question, or instruction. A written sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.

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the form of a word that is used for referring to one person or thing

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something that you say

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in English grammar, the person, place, or thing that does what the verb describes. In the sentence “Mary threw the ball,” “Mary” is the subject.

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a group of words that gives extra information about a sentence but cannot form a sentence by itself. For example, in the sentence “Marla stayed at home because she was tired,” “because she was tired” is a subordinate clause.

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a tag question

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a word or phrase such as “isn’t it?” or “haven’t you?” that you can add to a sentence to make a question

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the number of different types of clause that a word can be used with

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