Category: Languages
Created by: Xena
Number of Blossarys: 7
English (EN) A word derived from a verb which acts like an adjective, as in 'let sleeping dogs lie'. More technically 'A word that partakes the nature of a verb and an adjective; a derivative of a ...
A part of speech which indicates a connection, between two other parts of speech, such as 'to', 'with', 'by' or 'from'. 'She came from America', 'He gave ...
A part of speech which stands for a noun: "he", "she", "him", "her", "them". Possessive pronouns express ownership ("his", "hers"). Reflexive pronouns are "herself", "himself", "myself" and are used ...
A sentence is a complete linguistic composition containing a subject, main verb and object, and is concluded by a full-stop. It is usually supposed to be 'a sequence of words which makes complete ...
In grammar, subject is usually the person or thing who is performing the action of a verb. More technically the grammatical subject is the part of a sentence of which an action is predicated: ...
Syntax defines the way in which words can be arranged and modified to construct sentences. Writers characteristically use syntactic sub-ordination when they want a highly formal effect, and syntactic ...
A verb is usually a word that describes an action (such as 'he plays golf', 'she studies economics'). More technically it's that part of speech by which an assertion is made, or ...
