Glossary f Grammatical Terms.docVIP

A accent 1: an articulative effort giving prominence to one  HYPERLINK http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Glossary_main.html \l syllable#syllable 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  HYPERLINK http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Glossary_main.html \l vowel#vowel 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  HYPERLINK http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Glossary_main.html \l subject#subject subject performs the action represented by the  HYPERLINK http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Glossary_main.html \l verb#verb verb. In the last  HYPERLINK http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Glossary_main.html \l sentence#sentence sentence, the subject person or thing performs the action perform, so the sentence is in the active  HYPERLINK http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Glossary_main.html \l voice#voice 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  HYPERLINK http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Glossary_main.html \l noun#noun 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  HYPERLINK http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Glossary_main.html \l verb#verb verb, an  HYPERLINK http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Glossary_main.html \l adjective#adjective adjective, another adverb, a  HYPERLINK http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/fun/welsh/Glossary_main.html \l prepos