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Conjunct

Semantic or grammatical clustering of words or expressions in linguistic analysis

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Participle

Form of a verb which is used in a sentence to modify a noun or noun phrase

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Object (grammar)

Grammatical concept

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Complement (linguistics)

Word or phrase necessary to complete an expression

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Inversion (linguistics)

Grammatical construction

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Nominal (linguistics)

Linguistic category

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Head (linguistics)

Primary part of a grammatical phrase

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Gerund

Nonfinite verb form

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Disjunct (linguistics)

Word or phrase separable from adjacent syntax

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Topic sentence

Expository writing concept

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Tag question

Sentence with a declarative or imperative clause followed by an interrogative element

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Sluicing

Syntactic phenomenon

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Serial verb construction

Construction of verb compounds in some languages

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T-unit

Term in linguistics

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Compound subject

Two or more individual noun phrases coordinated to form a single, longer noun phrase

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Subject (grammar)

Person or thing about whom a sentence is made

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Clause

Smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition

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Adjunct (grammar)

Phrase that can be removed, preserving grammatical correctness

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Adverbial

Word or group of words that modify a verb

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Right node raising

Linguistic phenomenon

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Predicative expression

Part of a clause predicate

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