Glossary of English Grammar Terms

A fully cross-referenced English glossary of linguistic and grammatical terms. Each grammar definition
contains an explanation and cross-references to other relevant grammar terms.
Usable for both native speakers interested in language and linguistics, and students of English as
a second language (ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP)
English grammar terms of all levels from beginner to advanced.
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Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectival Noun
Adjective
Adjuncts
Adverbials
Adverbs
Attributive Adjectives
Common Adjective
Comparatives
Demonstrative Adjectives
Disjuncts
Possessive Adjective
Predicative Adjectives
Proper Adjective
Resultative Adjective
Superlative

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Articles
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Definite Article
Indefinite Articles
Zero Article

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Collocation

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Complement & Object

Complement
Direct Object
Indirect Objects
Objects
Retained Object

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Conditionals
Apodosis
Conditional Perfect
Conditionals
First Conditional
Mixed Conditionals
Other Conditionals
Protasis
Second Conditional (2nd Conditional)
Third Conditional (3rd Conditional)
Zero Conditional

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Conjunctions

36. Conjunctions
37. Conjuncts
38. Coordinating Conjunctions

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Determiners
Cardinal Numbers
Determiners
Numerals
Ordinal Numbers
Direct & Indirect Speech
Direct Speech
Indirect Speech
Reported Speech
Discourse
Back-Channelling
Discourse Analysis
Discourse Marker
Phatic Speech

(10) Figure of Speech

50. Anadiplosis
51. Antimetabole
52. Aphorism
53. Chiasmus
54. Epanadiplosis
55. Epanalepsis
56. Epistrophe
57. Epizeuxis
58. Figure of Speech
59. Hyperbole
60. Irony
61. Litotes
62. Meiosis
63. Metaphors
64. Oxymorons
65. Pleonasm
66. Polyptoton
67. Redundancy
68. Sarcasm
69. Simile
70. Spoonerism
71. Tautology
72. Understatement
73. Zeugma
(11) General
74. Agreement
75. Clauses
76. Concord
77. Dangling Modifiers
78. Gender
79. Grammar
80. Negatives
81. Number
82. Plurals
83. Postmodifier
84. Predicate
85. Premodifiers
86. Reed-Kellogg Diagrams

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(12) Gerunds and Infinitives
88. Gerunds
89. Infinitives
(13) Learning and Teaching
90. Blended Learning
91. Bottom-Up Language Learning
92. Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
93. Concordancers
94. Descriptive Grammar
95. Diachronic
96. EAP
97. EFL
98. ESL
99. ESOL
100. Gist
101. Mnemonics
102. Philology
103. Plagiarism
104. Prescriptive Grammars
105. Scanning
106. Semantics
107. Skimming
108. Synchronic
109. Syntax
110. TEFL
111. TESL
112. TESOL
113. Top-Down Language Learning
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114. Acrostics
115. Allegories
116. Alliteration
117. Limericks
118. Poetry
119. Prose
120. Prosody
121. Rhyme
122. Satire
123. Stanza
(15) Modals
124. Deontic Modality
125. Dynamic Modality
126. Epistemic Modality
127. Modal Verbs
(16) Nouns
128. Abstract Nouns
129. Animate Nouns
130. Apposition
131. Case
132. Collective Nouns
133. Concrete Nouns
134. Count Nouns

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Countable Nouns
Inanimate Nouns
Irregular Plurals
Mass Nouns
Noun as Adjective
Noun Phrases
Nouns
Proper Nouns
Subject
Substantive
Uncountable Noun

(17) Parts of Speech

146. Interjections
147. Part of Speech
(18) Passive
148. Passive Voice
(19) Phonetics
149. Allophones
150. Diacritic
151. Phonemes
(20) Phrasal Verbs
152. Phrasal Verbs
(21) Prefixes & Suffixes
153. Affixes
154. Inflection
155. Prefixes
156. Suffix
157. Tmesis
(22) Prepositions
158. Complex Prepositions
159. Particles
160. Prepositional Phrases
161. Prepositions
(23) Pronouns
162. Demonstrative Pronouns
163. Demonstratives
164. Interrogative Pronouns
165. Negative Pronouns
166. Person
167. Personal Pronouns
168. Possessive Pronoun
169. Pronouns
170. Reciprocal Pronouns
171. Reflexive Pronouns
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172. Accent
173. Allomorphs
174. Articulation
175. Assimilation
176. Backchaining

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Close Pairs
Disyllabic
Heteronyms
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Non-Rhotic
Onomatopoeia
Orthoepy
Polysyllabic
Received Pronunciation
Rhotic
Syllable
Syllable Division
Unvoiced Sounds
Voiced Sounds

(25) Question Tags

192. Question Tags
193. Tag Question
(26) Questions
194. Academic Question
195. Embedded Questions
196. Hypothetical questions
197. Leading Questions
198. Question
199. Question types
200. Rhetorical Question
201. Yes/No Questions
(27) Readability Tests
202. Coleman-Liau Index
203. Flesch-Kincaid Index
204. Fog Index
205. Lexical Density Test
206. Passive Index
207. Readability Test
(28) Relative Pronouns
208. Defining Relative Clauses
209. Non-defining Relative Clauses
210. Relative Clause
211. Relative Pronoun
(29) Some & Any
212. Quantifiers
(30) Spelling and Punctuation
213. Abbreviations
214. Acronyms
215. Alphabet
216. Ambigram
217. Capital Letters
218. Consonants
219. Examples of Acronyms
220. Homograph
221. Homophones
222. Letters

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Lower Case
Punctuation
Upper Case
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(31) Varieties and Dialects

227. Anti-Language
228. Archaic Language
229. Cockney Rhyming Slang
230. Colloquial
231. Creoles
232. Dialects
233. Diglossia
234. Don't-levelling
235. Estuary English
236. Idiolects
237. Pidgin
238. Standard English
(32) Verbs and Tenses
239. Active
240. Agents
241. Ambitransitive Verbs
242. Aspect
243. Auxiliary Verbs
244. Base Form
245. Causative Verbs
246. Continuous Verbs
247. Copula Verbs
248. Declarative Mood
249. Ditransitive Verbs
250. Dynamic Verbs
251. Emphatic Forms
252. Ergative Verbs
253. Finite Verbs
254. Future Perfect
255. Future Perfect Progressive (Future Perfect Continuous)
256. Future Progressive (Future Continuous)
257. Imperatives
258. Inchoative Verbs
259. Intransitive Verbs
260. Irregular Verbs
261. Linking Verb
262. Main Verbs
263. Middle Verbs
264. Mood
265. Non-Finite Verbs
266. Participles
267. Past Participles
268. Past Perfect
269. Past Perfect Progressive (Past Perfect Continuous)
270. Past Progressive (Past Continuous)
271. Past Simple (Simple Past)
272. Past Simple Tense
273. Perfect
274. Perfect Aspect
275. Performative Verb
276. Present Participle

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Present Perfect Progressive (Present Perfect Continuous)
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Regular Verbs
Stative Verbs
Subjunctive
Tense
Transitive Verb
Verb Group
Verb Phrase
Verbs
Voice

(33) Vocabulary
291. Antagonyms
292. Antonyms
293. Autoantonym
294. Bilingual Dictionaries
295. Cliche
296. Collocations
297. Contranyms
298. Crossword Dictionaries
299. Dictionaries
300. Dictionaries of Contemporary English
301. Dictionary Types
302. Eggcorn
303. Etymological Dictionaries
304. Etymology
305. Euphemisms
306. Glossary
307. Homonyms
308. Hyponyms
309. Idioms
310. Illustrated Dictionaries
311. Inductive Antonomasia
312. Jargon
313. Loanwords
314. Malapropisms
315. Metonymy
316. Mini-Dictionaries
317. Monolingual Dictionaries
318. Morphemes
319. Neologisms
320. Palindromes
321. Pocket Dictionaries
322. Polysemy
323. Portmanteau Word
324. Rhyming Dictionary
325. Slang
326. Superordinate
327. Swear Words
328. Synecdoche
329. Synonyms
330. Thesaurus

(34) Word & Text

331. Anaphora
332. Cataphora
333. Cleft Sentences
334. Deixis
335. Dyad
336. Ellipsis
337. Endophora
338. Exophoric
339. Major Sentences
340. Minor Sentence
341. Paragraphs
342. Phrases
343. Sentence
344. Sentence Fragment
345. Simple Sentences
346. Text
347. Topic Sentences
348. Utterance
349. Word
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350. Conditionals
351. Relative Pronouns
352. Passive Voice (By + Agent)
353. Order Of Adjectives