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	Glossary of Grammatical Terms
		a grammatical construction in which two typically adjacent nouns referring to the same person or thing stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of a sentence.
		grammatical mood of a verb that expresses the will to influence the behavior of another, expressive of a command, entreaty, or exhortation.
		It is the grammatical center of a predicate.
	www.cs.cf.ac.uk /fun/welsh/Glossary.html (2316 words)

	Declension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In many Indo-European languages, the inflected forms indicate its grammatical role.
		In inflected languages, nouns are said to decline into different forms, or morphological cases, which indicate the nouns' function in a sentence.
		Morphological cases are usually indicated by desinences (endings), but additionally, or alternatively, morphological modifications of the nominal stem may occur (see Nonconcatenative morphology, Apophony, Umlaut).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammatical_case (806 words)

	Seattle Language Schools, Learn Langauges Seattle, Study Spanish, Italian, French in Seattle, Learn languages Seattle ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Grammatical material covered at this level includes the simple past tense of the verbs sein ('to be') and haben ('to have') and the modal verbs; the formation of the past participle; the present perfect tense; two-way prepositions; the use of reflexive verbs and their corresponding pronouns; and the forms and usage of the dative case.
		Grammatical material to be introduced in this first quarter includes the present system of all four verb conjugations (including the irregular verbs sum and possum); the first three noun declensions; the first and second declensions of adjectives; and the demonstrative pronouns hic, ille, and iste.
		Grammatical coverage includes the fourth and fifth declension of nouns; further constructions using the ablative case, including the notorious ablative absolute construction; and the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.
	www.sealang.com /flp/flp_courses_0.asp (7694 words)

	Happiness02
		Their grammatical features include syntactic functions and morphological features, and the semantics includes lexical meaning, synonyms, antonyms, collocations and idioms of which these words are a component.
		On teaching and learning these five words, like teaching the word ‘happy’, although the introduction of their grammatical features may be simpler than that of their semantic structures, they must not be separated from each other.
		The happy choice and the correct use of the words by the translators, as a matter of fact, are subject to the mastering of the grammatical features and semantic structures of the words.
	www.tuninst.net /English/MaLam02.htm (4587 words)

	Real French.net \| Glossary
		This is one of two gender-related grammatical categories for nouns and pronouns in French (the other being masculine) which govern their agreement with other words such as adjectives, determiners and participles.
		This is one of two gender-related grammatical categories for nouns and pronouns in French (the other being feminine) which govern their agreement with other words such as adjectives, determiners and participles.
		This is one of two number-related grammatical categories (the other being singular) for the forms of nouns, adjectives, determiners, pronouns and many verb forms in French that are used depending on the number of entities involved.
	www.realfrench.net /grammar/glossary_print.php?long=1 (8134 words)

	Grammatical and semantic features of the word denoting happiness
		Its grammatical features include syntactic functions and morphological features, and the semantics includes lexical meaning, synonyms, antonyms, collocations and idioms of which ‘happy’ is a component.
		In this article, we shall first deal with the interesting points of ‘happy’ in terms of the grammatical features including syntactic functions and morphological features, and the semantics including lexical meaning, synonyms, antonyms, collocations and idioms of which ‘happy’ is a component.
		It has two inflected word-forms: happier (comparative) and happiest (superlative) by means of inflection; and five derivatives ‘happiness’ (n), ‘happily’ (adv), ‘unhappy’ (adj), ‘unhappiness’ (n) and ‘unhappily’ (adv) by means of derivation; and such compounds as ‘happy event’(n), ‘happy hour’ (n), ‘happy medium’ (n), ‘happy-go-lucky’ (adj), ‘slap-happy’ (adj), ‘trigger-happy’ (adj) by means of compounding.
	www.tuninst.net /English/MaLam01.htm (2673 words)

	Glossary Web Page
		An agglutinative language is marked by a tendency to express grammatical relations by a prefix or a suffix, but the sounds of these affixes are always clearly distinguishable from the words they're modifying.
		A grammatical role or function a noun, adjective, or pronoun (or any word acting as a noun, adjective or pronoun) plays in a sentence.
		Grammatically, the words cat's and song's are both in the possessive (aka genitive) case, but there's a different kind of relationship each has to the nouns they're governing.
	www.languages.uncc.edu /dagrote/Wheelock/glossary.htm (7903 words)

	The Parts of Speech
		Thus, the nouns, the adjectives, the numerals, the pronouns and the verbs belong to the 'inflective' parts of speech because they have grammatical categories such as number, for example, they have forms for the singular and forms for the plural, i.e.
		Strange enough because the adverbs fall into this category despite the fact that they have forms for positive, comparative and superlative degrees (at least the qualitative adverbs).
		Grammatical categories: altogether - gender, number, definiteness, person and case relics.
	www.hf.uio.no /east/bulg/mat/gram/106parsp.html (542 words)

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		All punctuation marks in the corpus are also grammatically tagged (however, the punctuation marks are omitted from all word counts, for example when calculating size of texts).
		AJS for Superlative Adjective) NOTE: When the most general, unmarked category of a part of speech is indicated, in general the third character is 0.
		This is because of the relative rarity of comparative and superlative adverbs.] AVPAdverb particle: (e.g.
	www.arabou.org /eng_files/E303/Grammatical_TAGS.doc (1444 words)

	Real French.net \| Glossary
		The passive voice indicates that the grammatical subject is the participant affected by the action.
		This is one of two number-related grammatical categories (the other being singular) for many word forms in French that are used depending on the number of entities involved.
		This is one of two number-related grammatical categories (the other being plural) for the many word forms in French that are used depending on the number of entities involved.
	www.realfrench.net /grammar/glossary_print.php (3876 words)

	Voice Methods \| Linguistic Databases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		All flexions are arranged into paradigms and mapped to respective grammatical characteristics such as number, gender, tense, person, etc. There are 53 paradigms (+ 22 paradigms for infixes) for verbs and 48 paradigms (+ 16 paradigms for infixes) for non-verbs.
		The rule interpreter analyzes grammatical contexts (sets of grammatical charcteristics encoded in the dictionary), and tags and groups words in a sentence according to their syntactic roles, making all possible disambiguations and grammatical transformations, if necessary.
		The rule interpreter analyzes syntactic roles and grammatical characteristics encoded in the dictionary or assigned by the syntactic analyzer, and composes grammatically correct phrases in the target language, making all possible rearrangements and grammatical transformations, if necessary.
	www.voicemethods.com /new/databases/mttools.php3 (747 words)

	guide
		Adjectives, which are defined by most people as "describing words," or words that modify nouns--persons, places, or things-- or pronouns-- words that substitute for nouns-- have been used in the English language ever since its beginnings in 449 A.D. Old English Period
		Also, the comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives were introduced during the Old English period.
		Adjective derivational suffixes, then, are a letter(s) added to the end of a word to change its grammatical function and most importantly, they identify a word as an adjective.
	www.geocities.com /MKathrynInman/guide.html (2160 words)

	English Glossary page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A grammatical distinction with a specific function: an indefinite expression is used to make reference to something which the speaker/writer does not expect the hearer/reader to count as identifiable.
		There is also a special sense contrasting with grammatical: lexical word classes are those with large numbers of members, and whose function is not narrowly grammatical, for example, verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs.
		Passive voice is used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the goal of the action, for example, The popcorn was eaten by Susan.
	www.eduweb.vic.gov.au /curriculumatwork/english/en_glossary.htm (9927 words)

	superlative definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		The superlative form of an adjective or adverb typically has the ending "-est."
		grammar grammatical form: the grammatical form of an adjective or adverb that expresses the highest degree of comparison
		grammar superlative adjective or adverb: a superlative form of an adjective or adverb
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861717062/superlative.html (174 words)

	Revising and Proofreading Messages
		The superlative is the form of the adjective or adverb that compares the thing modified with 2 or more other things.
		When superlative are totally unsupported or unsupportable, their use is questionable.
		If one of the ideas is presented in a different way grammatically, it appears to be out of place.
	www.stanford.edu /~harryg/protected/secured6/Chapter8.htm (1108 words)

	Glossary of Grammar and Syntax
		A grammatical role or function a noun, adjective, or pronoun (or any word acting as a noun, adjective or pronoun) can play in a sentence.
		Grammatically, the words cat's and song's are both in the possessive (aka genitive) case, but there's a different kind of relationship each has to the nouns they're going with.
		These are pronouns which also convey grammatical person: 1st: ego, nos, etc.; 2nd, tu, vos, etc.; 3rd.
	www.languages.uncc.edu /classics/latin/glossary.htm (7826 words)

	English 36
		Then there are the irregular adjectives whose comparative and superlative forms are different from their root positive, or base word.
		The superlative form is used to make a comparison between three (3) or more nouns or when expressing the highest degree of comparison.
		To form the superlative degree, the –est suffix is added to the root positive or the periphrastic form is used by preceding the adjective/adverb with the word most.
	www.unc.edu /~wendyk/english36.htm (2141 words)

	Grammar glossary
		In contrast to predicative adjectives, attributive adjectives generally represent properties of the noun referent that are taken for granted, and are not 'up for discussion'.
		The complementation of a verb thus consists in supplying all the elements that are necessary for that verb to function as a verb in a grammatical clause.
		The term refers most commonly to the agreement between the form of the subject and the form of a verb in a sentence; namely that if the subject phrase is in the third person singular, a present tense verb must end in -s.
	folk.uio.no /hhasselg/terms.html (4620 words)

	DE Guidebook 2004-2005 German 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Grammatical ponts; Construction with the dative: helfen, gefallen, passen, stehen, imperfect of
		Grammatical points; Indirect speech (Konjunctive I and II), present participle used as an adjective, past participle used as an adjective-revision points; Time-24 hr.
		Grammatical points; Accusative of time: ede Stunde, alle zwei Stunden-revision points; Imperative, prepositions with the accusative and the dative, use of the Imperfekt, adjectival endings
	www.openschool.bc.ca /de/guidebook/courses/german12.html (439 words)

	Lesson plans
		The final eleven minutes of class the instructor will present to the students what the positive, comparative, and superlative is in English and how it is formed in Latin.
		Evaluation: It will become evident whether the students understand what a positive, comparative, and superlative is by successful completion of the previous night homework and the assigned homework.
		The translation provides some material to discuss the significance of portents in the Roman world which could be equated to the modern world with people’s superstitions in regard to athletes especially high school athletes.
	plaza.ufl.edu /ssarles/lesson_plans.htm (1382 words)

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		A phrase that is grammatically independent but closely related in meaning to the rest of the sentence.
		An expression in good use that is peculiar to a language.(Idioms sometime violate established rules of grammar, but are nevertheless sanctioned by usage.) I have known him for {many a year}.
		A grammatically complete sentence contains at least a verb (predicate) and its subject (one or the other sometime simplied), with or without modifiers.
	www.empowermentzone.com /grammar.txt (2739 words)

	WebCelex Help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		grammatical code for the word or first part of the word
		dfl.cd and dfw.cd) in terms of vocabulary, frequency measures or grammatical categories, as these were gathered and encoded on the basis of different corpora and distinct criteria.
		First of all, note that the Uit den Boogaart file contains 108 items where a grammatical code was not assigned at all or could only be partly assigned, mainly due to transcription problems in the spoken domain.
	www.mpi.nl /world/celex/help/dudb.html (698 words)

	Language Miniatures 70: The comparative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		And we need to be able to compare more than two, and note that one is the biggest, slowest, highest or newest of them all.
		These are the familiar comparative and superlative, and they have been embedded in our language for a very long time.
		All the Indo-European languages show systems that are closely similar, meaning that the primitive language from which they all developed had a clearly definable grammatical comparative/superlative device.
	home.bluemarble.net /~langmin/miniatures/compar.htm (796 words)

	Ms. Sano’s Site - French (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Students in this class will study a variety of grammatical topics including negation, interrogatives, irregular verbs in present tense: conduire, lire, dire, écrire, connaître and savoir, croire and voir, dormir, sortir, partir, servir, mettre, pouvoir and vouloir, venir, prendre, passé compose, reflexive verbs, stress pronouns, comparative and superlative, direct and indirect pronouns.
		Vocabulary is taught in context and includes topics such as holidays, schools, politeness and emotional expressions, vocabulary of North Africa, the desert, farm animals, professions Culture is taught throughout the course as it relates to the vocabulary with special attention given to French speaking countries of Africa and French table manners.
		Advanced grammatical structures are reviewed and students are expected to write essays with more grammatical accuracy.
	home.comcast.net /~kksano/DEPT2.HTM (1484 words)

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		Grammatical morphemes-these are words or parts of words which express grammatical notions (like number, gender, etc.).
		Our answer would be the set of grammatical morphemes for the language; we would not consider how the language expresses something if there is no relevant dedicated grammatical morpheme.
		Grammatical glossary (after class and reading, you should know the meanings of these words and phrases.
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~tsanchez/LI10grcat.html (1447 words)

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