abbreviation
/əˌbɹiviˈeɪʃən/
nounthe shortened form of a word, etc.
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1. This includes capitalization, abbreviations, names, dates, and even misspelled words.
2. This one is the abbreviation of the word versus.
3. I write abbreviations.
4. You have short abbreviations.
5. We use those abbreviations everywhere.
active voice
/ˈæktɪv vˈɔɪs/
noun(grammar) the voice in which the subject is the agent that does the action of the verb
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1. This is active voice.
2. I used the passive voice instead of the active voice.
3. In English, we use the passive voice or the active voice for different reasons.
4. In most cases, use the active voice rather than the passive.
5. You make yourself the active voice.
adverbial
/ædˈvɝbiəɫ/
noun(grammar) a word or phrase that adds more information to another word in sense of time, manner, degree or cause
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1. So, phrases are groups of words that act like parts of speech, so this one, for example, is an adjectival or adverbial phrase.
2. So, if we've got Wanda gave a gift card to Louie, Wanda is the subject, gift card is the direct object, and then we can see to Louie is now this adverbial prepositional phrase that modifies gave.
3. This style of inversion is more common in speech with words like here, and there and small adverbials.
4. And the adverbial form of this, it would be a lis pendens, but that's also its own special legal document, usually regarding real estate.
apostrophe
/əˈpɑstɹəˌfi/
nounthe symbol ' used in writing to show possession or omission of letters or numbers
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1. They moved the apostrophe key to no man's land and Backspace.
2. But possessive pronouns don't use apostrophes.
3. So the apostrophe can do three things.
4. Which language does the word apostrophe come from?
5. What is an apostrophe?
article
/ˈɑɹtəkəɫ/, /ˈɑɹtɪkəɫ/
noun(grammar) any type of determiner that shows whether we are referring to a particular thing or a general example of something
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1. He wrote a very interesting article.
2. Writing articles.
3. Articles must cause the most headaches for English learners.
4. What are articles?
5. Another great Canadian line, is Article.
auxiliary verb
/ɔːksˈɪliəɹi vˈɜːb/
nouna verb that is used with other verbs to indicate tense, voice, etc., such as do, have, and be
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1. Imperatives have no auxiliary verb.
2. The past perfect continuous sentence has different auxiliary verbs.
3. The auxiliary verb must match the main verb.
4. The auxiliary verb matches the subject.
5. Auxiliary verbs are function words.
clause
/ˈkɫɔz/
noun(grammar) a group of words that contains a subject and a verb and functions as a unit within a sentence
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1. That clause gives us more information about the subject.
2. So both clauses use the present simple.
3. So both clauses use the present simple.
4. Most courts interpreted force majeure clauses very narrowly.
5. So the first law of nature, according to Hobbes, has two clauses.
conjunction
/kənˈdʒəŋkʃən/
noun(grammar) a word such as and, because, but, and or that connects phrases, sentences, or words
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1. They're conjunctions.
2. And a conjunction puts two things together.
3. Well, we use a conjunction.
4. Conjunctions join words, phrases, and clauses.
5. And a conjunction, brings about an epoch shift.
contraction
/kənˈtɹækʃən/
nouna short form of a word or a group of words used instead of the full form
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1. What are contractions?
2. So tip 1 was use contractions.
3. I use contractions.
4. One of you uses contractions only in dissents.
5. Segmentation contractions move chyme in both directions.
determiner
/dɪtˈɜːmɪnɚ/
noun(grammar) a word coming before a noun or noun phrase to specify its denotation
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1. Determiners help us figure out which specific instance of a specific noun we're talking about.
2. Not all of our noun phrases have a determiner in them.
3. This stands in stark contrast to the picture we get from Camus, who said that we are all the determiners of the value of our own lives.
4. So here 'another' is the determiner to the singular countable noun, 'room'.
5. - No- - That was really a determiner.
exclamation mark
/ɛksklɐmˈeɪʃən mˈɑːɹk/
nounthe symbol ! that marks an interjection, which is a word or phrase indicating surprise, anger, excitement, etc.
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1. And then, you see this little exclamation mark?
2. She's got exclamation marks all over the place.
3. The town even has a Guinness World Record for "most exclamation marks in a town name."
4. So it has two, like exclamation marks, like the way they'd be written in Spanish for the app logo.
5. There's lots of exclamation marks.
grammatical
/ɡɹəˈmætəkəɫ/, /ɡɹəˈmætɪkəɫ/
adjectiveconnected to the rules or the study of grammar
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1. You have the death sentence and the sentence, the grammatical sentence.
2. Is this grammatical?
3. Number two is not understanding grammatical terms.
4. Danish grammatical endings can only have one vowel in them.
5. This snippet of a story has five verbs, no time-specific adverbs and, unlike the English translation, zero grammatical tenses.
imperative verb
/ɪmpˈɛɹətˌɪv vˈɜːb/
noun(grammar) a verb or verb phrase that expresses an order to do something
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intonation
/ˌɪntəˈneɪʃən/
noun(phonetics) the rising and falling of the voice when speaking
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1. Any other question, intonation goes down.
2. Intonation is like punctuation.
3. The next thing is intonation.
4. Intonation is the melody of the language.
5. Intonation is my passion.
intransitive verb
/ɪntɹˈænsɪtˌɪv vˈɜːb/
noun(grammar) a verb without a direct object
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1. Now intransitive verbs are the opposite.
2. An intransitive verb means it doesn't take a direct object.
3. And you're still the subject in the intransitive verb wäyet, even though you look different.
4. This sets Mayan apart from both English and Nahuatl, since we use the same subjects for transitive and intransitive verbs.
transitive verb
/tɹˈænsɪtˌɪv vˈɜːb/
noun(grammar) a verb that needs a direct object
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1. We can also use 'stand' as a transitive verb which means 'to endure'.
2. Well, with a transitive verb, it takes an object or a direct object, meaning it has an effect on something else.
3. That's what a transitive verb means, so the verb has to carry across to an object.
4. A transitive verb mandates that there has to be an object there: "Sam devoured the pizza."
5. Take a transitive verb, a k'uxi, where you are the subject.
part of speech
/pˈɑːɹt ʌv spˈiːtʃ/
noun(grammar) any of the grammatical classes that words are categorized into, based on their usage in a sentence
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1. Next up is part of speech.
2. They're two different parts of speech.
3. Number one are parts of speech.
4. The speech and the consequences are all part of speech.
5. But the part of speech is not important here.
passive voice
/pˈæsɪv vˈɔɪs/
noun(in grammar) the form of a verb used when the grammatical subject is affected by the action of the verb, rather than performing it
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1. Well another contributor to zombie prose, is the passive voice.
2. The mainstream conversation about the subject uses passive voice all over the place.
3. The mainstream conversation about, um, this subject uses passive voice all over the place.
4. What's passive voice?
5. English speakers frequently use the passive voice.
period
/ˈpɪɹiəd/
nounthe symbol . used to mark the end of a sentence or an abbreviation
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1. "Only women get periods."
2. Humans with uteruses and vaginas get periods.
3. Period equals 2 pi over my angular frequency, omega.
4. Period before you can, legally purchase this gun.
5. Point barre means: period.
prefix
/ˈpɹifɪks/
noun(grammar) a letter or a set of letters that are added to the beginning of a word to alter its meaning and make a new word
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1. So what is a prefix?
2. Don't forget your prefixes.
3. Do you have a prefix?
4. Do you have a prefix?
5. The first batch have the prefix AA01.
suffix
/ˈsəfɪks/
noun(grammar) a letter or a set of letters that are added to the end of a word to alter its meaning and make a new word
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1. Next, we'll do suffixes.
2. This suffix is always unstressed.
3. Suffixes generally only have three letters.
4. Usually, longer words in English have suffixes.
5. What is a suffix?
reflexive
/ɹəˈfɫɛksɪv/
adjective(grammar) describing a word that indicates that the action of the verb affects the agent performing it
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1. But, when do you use reflexive pronouns?
2. You use reflexive pronouns when the subject and the object of a sentence are the same thing.
3. We call it reflexive pronoun.
4. The reflexive pathway basically includes areas of the brain stem we call central pattern generators.
5. For one, regular people and lawyers do use grants in a reflexive way.
relative
/ˈɹɛɫətɪv/
adjective(grammar) referring to a noun, clause or sentence that has come before
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1. How do you prevent all your relatives coming to live with you in the summer?'
2. Our perception is relative.
3. Fame is relative.
4. Vacuum emptiness is relative.
5. Most things are relative.
to quote
/ˈkwoʊt/
verbto say or repeat the exact sentence or group of words someone else used in a movie, book, etc.
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1. Mean Girls quote!
2. But of course people only quote the sound bite.
3. One said, quote, "the thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale."
4. The citation is quoting your source.
5. quoting our textbook.
proper noun
/pɹˈɑːpɚ nˈaʊn/
noun(grammar) the name of a place, person, country, etc. with its first letter capitalized
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1. So a historical figure is a proper noun?
2. Here we have verb, verb, and proper noun.
3. Proper nouns are specific people, places, and things.
4. examples of proper nouns include people's names, cities, countries, the names of streets, the days of the week, and the months of the year.
5. Again, it's a proper noun
common noun
/kˈɑːmən nˈaʊn/
noun(grammar) a noun that refers to an object or a concept of a class but not to a particular one
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1. These are common nouns.
2. These are common nouns.
3. These are common nouns.
4. These are common nouns.
5. Common nouns are nonspecific people, places, and things.
quotation mark
/kwoʊtˈeɪʃən mˈɑːɹk/
nouneither of the symbols " " or ' ' used before and after a word or words to indicate the beginning and the end of a title or quoted remark, or to mark a jargon
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1. Notice the quotation marks in the air.
2. It has two sets of quotation marks on stuff.
3. You'll see quotation marks, quotes.
4. That has to be in quotation marks.
5. - Is accidentally in quotation marks?
object
/ˈɑbdʒɛkt/, /əbˈdʒɛkt/
noun(grammar) a noun or noun phrase that is affected by the action of the verb, or is followed by a preposition
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1. Slamming objects on tables.
2. Powerful telescopes, like the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer, Herschel and Keck Observatory have photographed objects very far away.
3. Now, objects reflect light in all directions.
4. Object matrimony.
5. Object becomes separate.
abstract noun
/ˈæbstɹækt nˈaʊn/
noun(grammar) a noun that denotes a general quality or an idea, rather than a physical object or real world event
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1. So abstract nouns, unlike concrete nouns, are ideas, concepts, emotions.
2. They're abstract nouns in English.
3. They're abstract nouns in English.
4. They're abstract nouns in English.
5. They're abstract nouns in English.
accent
/ˈækˌsɛnt/, /əkˈsɛnt/
nounan emphasis given to a particular syllable of a word, part of a sentence, or note in a set of musical notes
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1. Yeah, the sausage should accent the beer and ice cream taste.
2. Backlit trim and blue lines accent the air vents and seats.
3. Goats have accents.
4. Several large palm trees accent the front of the villa and tower above the terracotta tile roof.
5. Accent the arms of the futon frame with soft pillows for even more comfortable seating.