Linguistics
Grammatical Functions of English Adjectives and Adjective PhrasesAdjective phrases including adjectives perform four main grammatical functions within sentences in the English language. The four functions of adjectives and...
April 10, 2013- Punctuation Rules for Commas in Written English
Punctuation is a convention of writing that helps readers more clearly understand written language. There are ten punctuation rules for using...
April 9, 2013 - Grammatical Mood in English
Grammatical mood is defined as a set of distinctive verb forms that express modality. Modality is the grammaticalized expression of the...
April 8, 2013 - Grammatical Voice in English
Grammatical voice is loosely defined as the grammaticalized expression of relationships between predicate and nominal functions such as subject and object....
April 7, 2013 - Tense and Aspect of English Verbs
All finite, or conjugated, verbs in English express grammatical tense and grammatical aspect. Tense is the grammaticalized expression of the location...
April 6, 2013 - Grammatical Aspect in English
Grammatical aspect can be defined as the grammaticalized expression of the temporal structure of an action or state. Temporal structure roughly...
April 5, 2013 - Grammatical Tense in English
Grammatical tense can be defined as the grammaticalized expression of the location in time of an action or state. Verb tense...
April 4, 2013 - The English Interrogative Pronoun System
Interrogative pronouns are a type of pronoun that take the place of another word, phrase, or clause. Similar to interrogative determiners,...
April 3, 2013 - Grammatical Form of English Verb Clauses
Consisting of a subject and a predicate, clauses are the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition. Verb clauses...
April 2, 2013 - The English Demonstrative Pronoun System
Demonstrative pronouns are a type of pronoun that take the place of another word, phrase, or clause. Like demonstrative determiners, demonstrative...
April 1, 2013 - Grammatical Form of English Adverb Clauses
Similar to the adverb and adverb phrases in grammatical function, an adverb clause is a dependent or subordinate clause that consists...
March 30, 2013 - The English Indefinite Pronoun System
Traditional grammars defined pronouns as “small words that take the place of nouns and noun phrases.” In additional to the personal...
March 29, 2013 - The Subject Complement in English Grammar
Subject complements are defined as words, phrases, and clauses that follow a copular, or linking, verb and refer back to modify,...
March 28, 2013 - Grammatical Form of English Nouns
Traditional grammars define nouns as “words that refer to people, places, things, and ideas.” Pronouns are a subcategory of nouns. Noun...
March 27, 2013 - Grammatical Forms of English Noun Phrases
A noun phrase is a phrase in which a noun functions as the head of the phrase plus any determiners, modifiers,...
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