Grammatical characteristics of words
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GENDERSGrammatical characteristics of words.
WHOSKIDDINGWHOMWords of a grammatical skeptic
caseinflectional form of a noun, pronoun, or adjective indicating its grammatical relation to other words
phraseword or group of words forming a syntactic constituent with a single grammatical function an adverbial phrase
amphibolyambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words.
analysisThe use of separate, short words and word order rather than inflection or agglutination to express grammatical structure
concordsAgreement between words in gender, number, case, person, or any other grammatical category that affects the forms of the words
lexicalof or pertaining to the words or vocabulary of a language, esp. as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects
instrumentalDenoting or relating to a case of nouns and pronouns (and words in grammatical agreement with them) indicating a means or instrument
analytic(of a language) Tending not to alter the form of its words and to use word order rather than inflection or agglutination to express grammatical structure
periphrasesThe use of separate words to express a grammatical relationship that is otherwise expressed by inflection, e.g., did go as opposed to went and more intelligent as opposed to smarter
periphrasisThe use of separate words to express a grammatical relationship that is otherwise expressed by inflection, e.g., did go as opposed to went and more intelligent as opposed to smarter
anaphorathe use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words, as the use of it and do in I know it and he does too
prelexicaldenoting a stage in the formation of a sentence at which words and phrases have not yet replaced all of the underlying grammatical and semantic material of that sentence in the speaker's mind
genders(in languages such as Latin, Greek, Russian, and German) Each of the classes (typically masculine, feminine, common, neuter) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the different inflections that they have and require in words syntactically associated with them. Grammatical gender is only very loosely associated with natural distinctions of sex