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Grammar
Affirmation and negation
Terms of opposite meaning which may be applied to statements, verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances
Apostrophe
Punctuation or diacritical mark (')
Backslash
Typographical mark (\)
Bracket
Punctuation mark
Clause
Smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition
Colon (punctuation)
Punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line
Comma
Punctuation mark (,)
Dash
Punctuation mark ( — )
Declension
Inflection of nouns, pronouns, numerals, adjectives, and articles according to number, gender, and/or case
Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Feature of grammar
Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison
Description
Text for clarification; one of four rhetorical modes
Determiner
Part of speech reflecting the reference of a noun
Ellipsis
Series of dots that indicates omission
Exclamation mark
Punctuation mark (!) to show strong feelings
Final clause
Formal grammar
Structure of a formal language
Full Stop
Topics referred to by the same term
Function word
Words supplying mainly grammatical information, rather than content information
Grammar
Structural rules of a language
Grammatical aspect
Grammatical category denoted by a verb
Grammatical case
Categorization of nouns, pronouns and adjectives in linguistics
Grammatical category
Analytical class within the grammar of a language
Grammatical conjugation
Creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection
Grammatical mood
Grammatical feature of sentences
Grammatical number
Use of grammar in a language to express number
Grammatical tense
Category that locates a situation in time
Guillemet
Double chevrons used as quotation marks
Hyphen
Punctuation mark used to join words
Idiom
Combination of words that has a figurative meaning
Inflection
Process of word formation
Interpunct
Typographical symbol, variously used as word delimiter, currency decimal delimiter, etc.
Nominalization
Grammatical formation of nouns from non-noun lexemes
Phrase
Group of (one or more) words
Possessive
Word or grammatical construction used to indicate a relationship of possession in a broad sense
Proverb
Short traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth
Punctuation
Marks to indicate pacing of written text
Question mark
Typographic character indicating a question
Quotation mark
Punctuation mark (")
Reduplication
Linguistic phenomenon
Semicolon
Punctuation mark
Sentence (linguistics)
Textual unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked, expressing a complete thought in non-functional linguistics
Serial comma
Comma before the conjunction in a list
Slash (punctuation)
Oblique slanting line punctuation mark '/'
Space (punctuation)
Blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables, or other written or printed glyphs; precise typographical rules differ according to language and context
Speech act
Utterance that serves a performative function
SYNTAX
Compiler-generation system
Systemic functional linguistics
(SFL)English
Theta role
In generative grammar, a formal device for representing syntactic argument structure—the number and type of noun phrases—required syntactically by a particular verb