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9th Grade
10/01/2008

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Term
Adpostional Phrase
Definition
A linguistics term that includes a prepostional phrase and pospostional. phrases
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Preposition
Definition
A part of speech that in troduces a prepsitional phrase.
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Grammar
Definition
the field of linguuistics that covers the rules governing the use of any given natural language.
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Noun Rhrase
Definition
A phrase whose head is a noun or a pronoun, optionally accompained by a set of modifiers.
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Noun
Definition
A person, place or thing.
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English
Definition
A West Germanic language originating in england.
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Liguistics
Definition
The scientific study of language, a number of sub-fields.
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Adjuncts
Definition
Words used as modifiers.
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Syntactic Category
Definition
Either a phrasal category, such as a noun phrase or ver phraase, which can be decomposed into smaller syntactic categories.
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Verb Phrase
Definition
A phrase headed by a verb.
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Auxiliary Verb
Definition
A verb functioning to give further semantic or syntactic information.
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Non-Finite Verb
Definition
A verd form that is not limited by a subject.
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Participle
Definition
Function as adjectives.
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Gerundive
Definition
A particular verd form.
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Adjective
Definition
To modify a noun or a pronoun.
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Adverb
Definition
Modifies anyother part of language: verbs, adjectives, clauses, sentences and other adverbs.
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Clause
Definition
A word of group of words that consists of a subject and a predicate.
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Predicate
Definition
One of the two main parts of a sentence.
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Subject of a Sentence
Definition
The other being its predicate.
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Grammatical Functions
Definition
Refers to syntactic relationships between parts of speech such as subject, object, adjunct, complement,
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