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Reciprocal Pronoun

A reciprocal pronoun is used to indicate that two or more people are carrying out or have carried out an action of some type, with both receiving the benefits or consequences of that action simultaneously. Any time something is done or given in return, reciprocal pronouns are used.  There are only two reciprocal pronouns. Each other One another Use: There...

Reference

In semantics, reference is generally construed as the relationships between nouns or pronouns and objects that are named by them. Hence, the word "John" refers to the person John. The word "it" refers to some previously specified object.  The object referred to is called the referent of the word. Sometimes the word-object relation...

Reflexive Vs. Intensive Pronouns

An intensive pronoun is almost identical to a reflexive pronoun. It is defined as a pronoun that ends in self or selves and places emphasis on its antecedent by referring back to another noun or pronoun used earlier in the sentence You can tell the difference between a reflexive pronoun and an intensive pronoun easily: Intensive pronouns...

Regular Verbs

A regular verb is one that conforms to the usual rule for forming its simple past tense and its past participle. A regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. With the exception of the highly irregular verb be, an English verb can have up to five forms: its plain form...

Relative Pronoun

A relative pronoun is one, which is used to refer to nouns mentioned previously, whether they are people, places, things, animals, or ideas. Relative pronouns can be used to join two sentences. There are only a few relative pronouns in the English language. The most common are which, that, whose, whoever, whomever, who, and whom. In some situations, the words what, when,...

Rhythm

In linguistics, rhythm or isochrony is one of the three aspects of prosody, along with stress and intonation. Languages can be categorized according to whether they are syllable-timed, mora-timed, or stress-timed. Speakers of syllable-timed languages such as Spanish and Cantonese put roughly equal time on each syllable; in contrast, speakers of stressed-timed languages such as English and Mandarin...

Root

A root, or a root word, is a word that does not have a prefix in front of the word or a suffix at the end of the word.  The root word is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family (root is then called base word), which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents.  Content...

Semantics

Semantics is primarily the linguistic, and also philosophical, study of meaning—in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics. It focuses on the relationship between signifiers—like words, phrases, signs, and symbols—and what they stand for, their denotatio...

Semiotics

It is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign processes and meaningful communication. This includes the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, allegory, metonymy, metaphor symbolism, signification, and communication The semiotic tradition explores the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communications. As different from linguistics, however,...

Sense

In linguistics, a word sense is one of the meanings of a word. For example, a dictionary may have over 50 different senses of the word play, each of these having a different meaning based on the context of the word's usage in a sentence, as follows: ·        We went to see the play Romeo and Juliet at the theater. ·        The...

Signifier

It is a symbol, sound, or image (as a word) that represents an underlying concept or meaning. ...

Solecism

In traditional grammar, a solecism is a phrase that transgresses the rules of grammar.  The word originally was used by the Greeks for what they perceived as grammatical mistakes in their language.  ...

Speech Act

A speech act in linguistics and the philosophy of language is an utterance that has performative function in language and communication. According to Kent Bach, "almost any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once, distinguished by different aspects of the speaker's intention: there is the act of saying something, what one does in saying it, such as requesting or promising, and how...

Speech Circuit

Allows us to transmit information, if the circuit does not work properly we will not be able to communicate. The speech circuit has the following components: • Medium / Channel: The communication process using this code requires a channel for the transmission of the signals. The Channel would be the physical medium through which communication is transmitted. • Code: It...

Stranding

Traditional grammatical rules say that we should not have a preposition at the end of a clause or sentence. However, we sometimes do separate a preposition from the words which follow it (its complement). This is called preposition stranding, and it is common in informal styles: -       She was someone to whom he could talk. (formal) -       She was someone who he...

Subject Pronoun

A subject pronoun is exactly what it sounds like: a pronoun that takes the place of a noun as the subject of a sentence. Remember, a sentence’s subject is the person or thing that performs the action of a verb. When you take an even closer look, you’ll see that a subject pronoun is used as the subject of a verb, while an object pronoun is usually used as a grammatical object. Subject...

Superlative Adjectives

Superlative adjectives express the greatest increase or decrease of the quality; it conveys the supreme value of the noun in question.  For instance, 'He is the richest man in this town'. Here, the word 'richest' is the superlative adjective which shows a comparison individually.     Mary is the tallest of all the students.     I am...

Synonym

A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language. Words that are synonyms are said to be synonymous, and the state of being a synonym is called synonymy.  Examples of synonyms are the words begin, start, commence, and initiate.  Words can be synonymous...

Uncountable Nouns

Some nouns are not countable and are called uncountable nouns or mass nouns.   For example, the word clutter is a mass noun. That garage is full of clutter. This sentence makes grammatical sense. However, the following example does not. That garage is full of clutters. Mass nouns cannot take plural forms. Substances, liquids, and powders are entities...

Utterance

In spoken language analysis an utterance is a smallest unit of speech. It is a continuous piece of speech beginning and ending with a clear pause. In the case of oral languages, it is generally but not always bounded by silence.  Utterances do not exist in written language, only their representations do. They can be represented and delineated in written language in many ways. In oral/spoken language...

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Verb

A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to,...

Vocal apparatus

The human vocal apparatus is like two kinds of musical instruments at once: a wind instrument and a string instrument. This apparatus includes a source of wind (the lungs), components that vibrate (the vocal cords in the larynx), and a series of resonant chambers (the pharynx, the mouth, and the nasal cavities).  The first component of this apparatus is the lungs...
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