The Structual [sic] Essentials of Written English |
Common terms and phrases
American English basic bound morpheme close word group colloquial spoken English complex compound verb groups construction contexts contrast elements empty words enclose English language express falling stress pattern final tone pattern fixed word order following pronouns formal written English free morpheme full words function gave the lady girl was pretty giving a lady grammatical device grammatical meaning grammatical relations group preposition headword illation immediately indicate ing-part inner complement interrogative word lady 4 books lady books linguistic linking loose word group morphemes movable modifiers nice fresh fruit normal noun occur omission outer complement paired commas past tense Perfect Aspect period punctuates phonemic plain stem plural position practical meaning predicate punctuation qualifying quotation marks s-part scale of explicitness selects semicolon simple conjunctions simple prepositions single words singular speaker speech spelling structure subject-predicate groups subject-predicate sentence subject-predicate word groups substitute words syllables system of English transitional adverbs verbal helpers word forms writing