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General

General nature or nature terms.

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General

A type of function word. English has definite (the) and indefinite (a, an) articles. They function as (central) determiners in noun phrases. The term 'zero article' is sometimes used in referring to ...

aspect

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A category of the verb. Aspect views the action/state from within, and key terms are 'duration' and 'completion'. In contrast to tense, aspect does not locate an action/state in time. The English ...

attributive

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Term used of adjectives which premodify nouns, i.e. an adjective placed in front of a noun is said to be in attributive position, and to have attributive function. Attributive function implies that ...

auxiliary

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A function word. There are two classes of auxiliary verbs: (1) grammatical auxiliaries (be, do ,have) are part of grammatical constructions, but carry little meaning. (be followed by an -ing ...