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🏆Intro to English Grammar
Key Terms

143 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to English Grammar exam

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A

Absolute tenses
Active Voice
Adjective clause
Adjunct
Adverb Phrase
Adverb vs. Adjective
Adverbial phrases
Adverbial vs. Noun Phrase
Adverbs of Manner
Adverbs of Time
African American Vernacular English
Age-graded linguistic features
Agglutinative Morphology
Antonymy
Auxiliary verbs

B

Back-formation
Be
Because of
Borrowed words
Borrowing and adaptation
Both...and

C

C-command
Chomsky's Transformational Grammar
Clause linkage
Collective nouns
Comma
Comma before conjunction in a compound sentence
Comma usage
Comma usage with introductory clauses
Complete subject
Complete thought
Compound noun phrase
Compound predicate
Compound subject
Compound-complex sentence
Conventional implicature
Coordinative Compounds
Correlative Conjunctions
Count noun

D

Deep structure
Degree adverbs
Derivation rules
Derivational morphemes
Descriptive adjectives
Directional Prefix
Discourse markers
Dissimilation
Ditransitive verbs
Double negatives

E

Either...or
Embedded clause
Emphatic Pronouns
End-weight principle
Ergative verbs
Exclamation Marks

F

Frequency adverbials
Frequency Effects
Functional analysis
Functional words

G

Generative Grammar
Grammaticality
Grammaticality vs. Acceptability

H

Halliday and Hasan's Model
Have to
He
Hyphenated Compounds

I

Idiolect
Implied subjects
Incomplete clause
Indefinite Articles
Intonation