A-Z List of Grammatical & Linguistic Terms
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A-Z Index of Grammatical Terms
A
- Abbreviations
- Abstract Nouns
- Academic Question
- Accent
- Accommodation
- Acronyms
- Acrostics
- Action Verbs
- Active
- Adjectival Noun
- Adjective
- Adjuncts
- Adverbials
- Adverbs
- Affixes
- Agent Nouns
- Agents
- Agreement
- Allegories
- Alliteration
- Allomorphs
- Allophones
- Allusion
- Alphabet
- Alphabet Soup
- Ambigram
- Ambitransitive Verbs
- Anadiplosis
- Anaphora
- Animate Nouns
- Antagonyms
- Antecedent
- Anti-Language
- Antimetabole
- Antonyms
- Aphorism
- Apodosis
- Apposition
- Appositive
- Archaic Language
- Articles
- Articulation
- Artificial Language
- Aspect
- Aspiration
- Assimilation
- Assonance
- Asyndeton
- Attributive Adjectives
- Autoantonym
- Automated Readability Index (ARI)
- Auxiliary Verbs
B
- Back-Channelling
- Backchaining
- Backronym
- Base Form
- Bilingual Dictionaries
- Blended Learning
- Bottom-Up Language Learning
C
- Capital Letters
- Cardinal Numbers
- Case
- Cataphora
- Causative Verbs
- Chiasmus
- Clauses
- Cleft Sentences
- Cliche
- Close Pairs
- Cockney Rhyming Slang
- Cognate
- Coleman-Liau Index
- Collective Nouns
- Colligation
- Collocations
- Colloquial
- Common Adjective
- Comparatives
- Complement
- Complex Prepositions
- Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
- Concord
- Concordancers
- Concrete Nouns
- Conditional Perfect
- Conditionals
- Conjunctions
- Conjuncts
- Consonants
- Continuous Verbs
- Contranyms
- Coordinating Conjunctions
- Copula Verbs
- Count Nouns
- Countable Nouns
- Creoles
- Crossword Dictionaries
D
- Dangling Modifiers
- Declarative Mood
- Defining Relative Clauses
- Definite Article
- Deixis
- Demonstrative Adjectives
- Demonstrative Pronouns
- Demonstratives
- Denominal Verbs
- Deontic Modality
- Descriptive Grammar
- Determiners
- Diachronic
- Diacritic
- Dialects
- Dictionaries
- Dictionaries of Contemporary English
- Dictionary Types
- Diglossia
- Diminutive
- Direct Object
- Direct Speech
- Discourse Analysis
- Discourse Marker
- Disjuncts
- Disyllabic
- Ditransitive Verbs
- Don't-levelling
- Dyad
- Dynamic Modality
- Dynamic Verbs
E
- EAP
- EFL
- Eggcorn
- Ellipsis
- Embedded Questions
- Emphatic Forms
- Endophora
- Epanadiplosis
- Epanalepsis
- Epistemic Modality
- Epistrophe
- Epizeuxis
- Ergative Verbs
- ESL
- ESOL
- Estuary English
- Etymological Dictionaries
- Etymology
- Euphemisms
- Exophoric
F
- False Cognate
- Figure of Speech
- Finite Verbs
- First Conditional (1st Conditional)
- Flesch Reading Ease
- Flesch-Kincaid Index
- Fog Index
- Function
- Fused Participle
- Future Perfect
- Future Perfect Progressive (Future Perfect Continuous)
- Future Progressive (Future Continuous)
G
H
- Helping Verb
- Heteronyms
- Historic Present
- Homograph
- Homonyms
- Homophones
- Hyperbole
- Hyponyms
- Hypothetical questions
I
- Idiolects
- Idioms
- Illustrated Dictionaries
- Imperatives
- Inanimate Nouns
- Inchoative Verbs
- Indefinite Articles
- Indefinite Pronoun
- Indirect Objects
- Indirect Speech
- Inductive Antonomasia
- Infinitives
- Inflection
- Interjections
- Interrogative Pronouns
- Intransitive Verbs
- Irony
- Irregular Plurals
- Irregular Verbs
J
L
- Leading Questions
- Letters
- Lexical Density Test
- Limericks
- Linking Verb
- Litotes
- LIX (Laesbarhedsindex)
- Loan Words
- Lower Case
M
- Main Verbs
- Major Sentences
- Malapropisms
- Mass Nouns
- Meiosis
- Metaphors
- Metaplasm
- Metonymy
- Middle Verbs
- Minced Oath
- Mini-Dictionaries
- Minimal Pairs
- Minor Sentence
- Minority Language
- Mixed Conditionals
- Mnemonics
- Modal Verbs
- Mondegreen
- Monolingual Dictionaries
- Monosyllabic
- Mood
- Morphemes
- Motivation
N
- Negative Pronouns
- Negatives
- Neologisms
- Non-defining Relative Clauses
- Non-Finite Verbs
- Non-Rhotic
- Noun as Adjective
- Noun Phrases
- Nouns
- Number
- Numerals
O
P
- Palindromes
- Paragraphs
- Parsing
- Part of Speech
- Participles
- Particles
- Passive Index
- Passive Voice
- Past Participles
- Past Perfect
- Past Perfect Progressive (Past Perfect Continuous)
- Past Progressive (Past Continuous)
- Past Simple (Simple Past Tense)
- Perfect
- Perfect Aspect
- Performative Verb
- Person
- Personal Pronouns
- Phatic Speech
- Philology
- Phonemes
- Phonetic Alphabet
- Phonetics
- Phrasal Verbs
- Phrases
- Pidgin
- Plagiarism
- Pleonasm
- Plurals
- Pocket Dictionaries
- Poetry
- Polyptoton
- Polysemy
- Polysyllabic
- Portmanteau Word
- Possessive Adjective
- Possessive Pronoun
- Postmodifier
- Pragmatics
- Predicate
- Predicative Adjectives
- Prefixes
- Premodifiers
- Prepositional Phrases
- Prepositions
- Prescriptive Grammars
- Present Participle
- Present Perfect
- Present Perfect Progressive (Present Perfect Continuous)
- Present Progressive (Present Continuous)
- Present Simple Tense
- Progressive Aspect
- Pronouns
- Pronunciation
- Proper Adjective
- Proper Nouns
- Prose
- Prosody
- Protasis
- Punctuation
Q
R
- Readability Test
- Received Pronunciation
- Reciprocal Pronouns
- Redundancy
- Reed-Kellogg Diagrams
- Reflexive Pronouns
- Register
- Regression
- Regular Verbs
- Relative Clause
- Relative Pronoun
- Reported Speech
- Resultative Adjective
- Retained Object
- Rhetorical Question
- Rhotic
- Rhyme
- Rhyming Dictionary
S
- Sarcasm
- Satire
- Scanning
- Second Conditional (2nd Conditional)
- Semantics
- Sentence
- Sentence Fragment
- Simile
- Simple Sentences
- Singular
- Skimming
- Slang
- SMOG Grade
- Spoonerism
- Standard English
- Stanza
- Stative Verbs
- Subject
- Subjunctive
- Subordinating Conjunction
- Substantive
- Suffix
- Superlative
- Superordinate
- Swear Words
- Syllable
- Syllable Division
- Synchronic
- Synecdoche
- Synonyms
- Syntax
T
- Tag Question
- Tautology
- TEFL
- Tense
- TESL
- TESOL
- Text
- Thesaurus
- Third Conditional (3rd Conditional)
- Tmesis
- Top-Down Language Learning
- Topic Sentences
- Transition
- Transitive Verb