Glossary: Chapter 1
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grammatical homonymsLexical items that are identical in form, but belong to different parts of speech. | |
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imperative moodA verbal category that expresses the speaker's will as a command or a request. | |
indicative moodA verbal category that represents an event as a real fact. | |
inflectional suffixA suffix that is used to create another form of the same word. Its presence is determined by the grammatical context. | |
interjectionA part of speech that describes strong emotions or feelings. | |
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lexemeThe basic form of the word that we usually find in the dictionary. | |
lexical word classesThe main four parts of speech that are high in meaning (noun, verb, adjectif, adverb). | |
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moodA verbal category that indicates whether the speaker presents an event as a real fact, as something unreal, or else as something he wishes to be performed and made real. | |
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nominative caseAn inflected form that marks the word as the subject of the sentence. | |
nounA part of speech that describes stable features of human experience. | |