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adjective

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One of the lexical word classes. Adjectives are typically descriptive of a noun; they denote qualities, characteristics and properties of people, things and phenomena.

adjective phrase

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A phrase with an adjective as its head. An adjective can be intensified by an adverb (as in very good, extremely popular, more difficult), and complemented in various ways. Adjective phrases ...

A type of adverbial indicating the circumstances of the action. Adjuncts may be obligatory or optional. They express such relations as time, place, manner, reason, condition, i.e. they are answers to ...

adverb

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One of the lexical word classes. Adverbs are a very heterogeneous word class. Many are derived from adjectives, and are therefore largely descriptive or evaluative. Others refer to such things as ...

adverbial

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Syntactic function at clause level. Adverbials may be obligatory, though most of them are not. However, they can be added freely to any clause pattern.

adverb phrase

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A phrase with an adverb as its head. The head may be preceded by an intensifier (another adverb) and followed by a complement or a postmodifier (usually a prepositional phrase or a clause). E.g. very ...

affix

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A part of a word which is connected with the word's meaning or syntax, but is not a root (e.g. -s and -ed in play-s and play-ed). An affix may be a prefix or a suffix (and in some languages other ...