The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. 1996. Page 273

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The American Heritage® Book of English Usage.

A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.

Page 273

progressive
A verb form that expresses an action or condition in progress. In English progressive verb forms employ a form of the verb be and a present participle of the main verb, as in He is walking, He has been walking, He had been walking. See Grammar, verbs, tenses of.	1
pronoun
A word that functions as a substitute for a noun or noun phrase.	2
proper noun
A noun used as a name for a specific individual, event, or place and usually having few possibilities for modification.	3
reflexive pronoun
A pronoun used as the direct object of a reflexive verb. Reflexive pronouns end in -self or -selves.	4
reflexive verb
A verb whose subject is identical with its object, as dressed in She dressed herself.	5
regular
Conforming to the usual pattern of inflection, derivation, or word formation. A plural ending in -s is a regular plural.	6
relative clause
A dependent clause introduced by a relative pronoun, as which is downstairs in The stereo, which is downstairs, has four speakers.	7
relative pronoun
A pronoun that introduces a relative clause and refers to an antecedent. Who, whom, whose, which, and that the relative pronouns. See Grammar, that, who, and which.	8
restrictive clause
A dependent clause that identifies the noun, phrase, or clause it modifies and limits or restricts its meaning, as the clause who live in glass houses in People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.	9
singular
A grammatical form that designates a single person or thing or a group of things considered as a single unit.	10
A verb form that expresses the action or state of a grammatically singular subject	11
split infinitive
An infinitive with an element, usually an adverb, interposed between to and the verb, as to boldly go. See Grammar, split infinitive.	12
strong verb
A verb such as drink, ride, or speak, that forms its past tense by a change in the vowel of the base form and that forms its past participle by a change in vowel and sometimes by adding -n or -en. See Grammar, verbs, principal parts of.	13
subject
The noun, noun phrase, or pronoun in a sentence or clause that denotes the doer of the action or what is described by the predicate. In some sentences the subject is not a doer but is acted upon. This is true for sentences with verbs in the passive voice and for verbs with a passive meaning, such as undergo in She underwent surgery to repair her shoulder.	14

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