Glossar Of Grammatical Terms.docVIP

A accent 1: an articulative effort giving prominence to one syllable over adjacent syllables. 2: a mark used in writing or printing to indicate a specific sound value, stress, or pitch, to distinguish words otherwise identically spelled, or to indicate that an ordinarily mute vowel should be pronounced. People with different accents might use an accent mark to indicate they accent a different syllable. active asserting that the person or thing represented by the grammatical subject performs the action represented by the verb. In the last sentence, the subject person or thing performs the action perform, so the sentence is in the active voice. In the last sentence, the subject subject performs the action perform, so the sentence is also in the active voice. (Repeat the last sentence ad infinitum.) adjective a word that serves as a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the thing named, to indicate its quantity or extent, or to specify a thing as distinct from something else. It answers the questions which?, how many?, and what kind of?, though probably not all three at once. adverb a word serving as a modifier of a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a preposition, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence, and expressing some relation of manner or quality, place, time, degree, number, cause, opposition, affirmation, or denial. It answers the questions where?, when?, or how?, even if you didnt ask. apposition a grammatical construction in which two typically adjacent nouns referring to the same person or thing stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence. For example, in the rally of the opposition Labor Party, Labor Party is in apposition with opposition. article one of a small set of words or affixes (as a, an, and the) used with nouns to limit or give definiteness to the application. English has an indefinite article (a, an) and a definite article (the). Welsh has only a definite article. Im sure whole articles have been written about art