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| The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. |
| A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996. |
| Page 274 |
subjunctive | |
| The verbal mood that expresses the speaker’s attitude about the likelihood or factuality of the situation and is also used in conditional clauses, in that clauses making a command or expressing an intention, and in other clauses. See Grammar, verbs, mood of and subjunctive. | 1 |
subordinate clause | |
| A dependent clause. | 2 |
subordinate conjunction | |
| A conjunction, such as after, because, if, and where, that introduces a dependent clause. | 3 |
substantive | |
| A word or group of words functioning as a noun, as wealthy in Only the wealthy can afford to belong to that club. | 4 |
suffix | |
| An affix added to the end of a word, forming a new word or serving as an inflectional ending, as -ness in gentleness, -ing in walking, or -s in sits. | 5 |
superlative degree | |
| The extreme degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb, as best and brightest. | 6 |
syntax | |
| The system of rules whereby words are combined to form grammatical phrases and sentences. | 7 |
| The pattern of word arrangement in a given phrase or sentence | 8 |
tense | |
| A set of verb forms that indicates the time (as past, present, or future) and the continuance or completion of the action or state. See Grammar, verbs, tenses of. | 9 |
transitive verb | |
| A verb that requires a direct object to complete its meaning, carrying the action of the verb from the subject to the object. In the sentence She played the waltz, play is a transitive verb. In the sentence She plays beautifully, play is not transitive. See Grammar, verbs, transitive and intransitive. | 10 |
verb | |
| A word that expresses existence, action, or occurrence. | 11 |
voice | |
| A property of verbs that indicates the relationship between the subject and the action of the verb. See Grammar, verbs, transitive and intransitive and verbs, voice of. | 12 |
weak verb | |
| A verb that forms its past tense and past participle by adding a suffix that ends in -d, -ed, or -t, as start, have, and send. See Grammar, verbs, principal parts of. | 13 |
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