a word or group of words that describes a noun phrase or restricts its meaning in some way, and is placed after it.
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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 ).
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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.
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a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical.
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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 ).
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a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every.
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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.
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a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).
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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 ).
