a word or group of words containing a noun and functioning in a sentence as subject, object, or prepositional object.
noun phrase
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a verb with another word or words indicating tense, mood, or person.
verb phrase
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a group of words that contains both a subject and a predicate but cannot always be considered as a full grammatical sentence.
clause
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the main word in a phrase
headword
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words that describe the headword or give us more information on it
modifiers
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comes after the headword
post-modifers
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the study of words (stems, root words, prefixes and suffixes)
morphology
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a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every.
determiner
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a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause.
preposition
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a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this ).
pronoun
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a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things ( common noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun ).
noun
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a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
verb
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a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.
adjective
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a word or phrase that modifies the meaning of an adjective, verb, or other adverb, expressing manner, place, time, or degree (e.g. gently, here, now, very ).
adverb
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Card 2
Front
a verb with another word or words indicating tense, mood, or person.
Back
verb phrase
Card 3
Front
a group of words that contains both a subject and a predicate but cannot always be considered as a full grammatical sentence.
Back
Card 4
Front
the main word in a phrase
Back
Card 5
Front
words that describe the headword or give us more information on it
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