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Terms Connected with Grammar

Abstract noun
Active Voice

Adjectival noun

Adjective

Adjunct

Adverb

Adverbial

Adverbial clause

Adverb particle

Affix / Affixation

Allomorph
Amplifiers

Assertive meaning

Attributive adjectives

Backshift

Bare infinitive
Base form of the verb

Catenative verbs

Causative verbs

Clause / Clause elements

Cleft sentence
Closed Questions

Collective nouns
Colligation

Complement
Complex preposition

Complex sentence

Compound sentence
Compound-complex sentence

Concrete noun

Connective

Copula
Copulative verbs

Co-ordinating Conjunctions
Co-ordination

Dangling participles

Deductive approach
Defective verbs

Demonstratives
Deontic modality

Dependent/Subordinate clause

Descriptive grammar

Diminutive

Disjunct

Ditransitive verb

Dummy operator
Dynamic verbs
Dynamic modality

Ellipsis
Emphasisers

Epistemic Modality
"Empty" it
Ergative verbs

Finite verbs
Fronting

Gender

Gerund/Gerundive

Historic present

Imperative mood

Inchoative verbs

Independent/Main clause

Indirect speech/Reported speech

Intensifier / Intensification

Interrogative adverbs
Interrogative determiners

Interrogative pronouns

Interrogative words

Intransitive verbs

Intrinsic motivation

Main clause

Morpheme/ Morphology

Non-assertive meaning

Non-finite verbs

Operator
Operator inversion

Passive voice

Past participle

Performative verbs

Periphrastic verbs
Phrase
Plural nouns

Post-head (grammar)

Predicative adjectives

Prefix
Pre-head (grammar)

Preposition
Prepositional complement
Prepositional object

Prepositional phrase

Prescriptive grammar

Present participle
Primary auxiliaries

Pseudo-cleft sentence

Quantifiers
Question Tags

Reciprocal pronouns

Reflexive pronouns

Reported speech/Indirect speech
Secondary Auxiliaries
Sentence types
Simple preposition

Simple sentence

Stative verbs
Subject-verb inversion

Subordinating conjunctions
Subordinate clauses
Substitution and reference

Voice (Grammar)

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