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🏆Intro to English Grammar
Key Terms

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

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A

Absolute tenses
Academic Language Proficiency
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
Agreement rule
Antonymy
Auxiliary verbs

B

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

C

C-command
Celtic Languages
Chomsky's Transformational Grammar
Clause linkage
Code-meshing
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
Conciseness
Connectionist Model
Conventional implicature
Coordinative Compounds
Correlative Conjunctions
Count noun

D

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

E

Early Modern English
Efl (English as a Foreign Language)
Either...or
Embedded clause
Emphatic Pronouns
End-weight principle
English Medium Instruction
Ergative verbs
Exclamation Marks

F

Frequency adverbials
Frequency Effects
Functional analysis
Functional Grammar
Functional words