Abbreviations

Question 1

[A]

Answer 1

Adverb: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ).

Question 2

[AT]

Answer 2

Attribute: a noun that means a quality or characteristic that someone or something has

Question 3

[AV]

Answer 3

Auxiliary Verb: a verb that is used with a main verb to change its tense, mood, or voice. Auxiliary verbs can also help to clarify if the verb is active or passive, or if it takes on a specific mood.

Question 4

[BF]

Answer 4

Bound Form: a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated.

Question 5

[CJ]

Answer 5

Conjunction: a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).

Question 6

[CV]

Answer 6

Coverb: A coverb is a word or prefix that works with or resembles a verb, and has characteristics of both verbs and prepositions

Question 7

[EX]

Answer 7

Equative Verb: link two nouns or two noun phrases, as in “I am a teacher

Question 8

[I]

Answer 8

Interjection: a word or phrase that conveys emotions, reactions, or nuances in a communication.

Question 9

[IE]

Answer 9

Idiomatic Expression: phrases that convey a figurative meaning that goes beyond the literal meaning of the words.

Question 10

[L]

Answer 10

Localizer: a word that indicates the relative position of an object in space or time (e.g. up, down, front)

Question 11

[M]

Answer 11

Measure: when a noun is qualified by a numeral or demonstrative.

Question 12

[MA]

Answer 12

Moveable Adverb: the capacity of an adverb to function from various positions in the same sentence.

Question 13

[N]

Answer 13

Noun: a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).

Question 14

[NU]

Answer 14

Number

Question 15

[P]

Answer 15

Particle: a word that conveys grammatical meaning without having lexical meaning (e.g. le, ma, de, a)

Question 16

[PH]

Answer 16

Phrase: a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.

Question 17

[PR]

Answer 17

Pronoun: a word that replaces a noun in a sentence to refer to a person or thing.

Question 18

[PT]

Answer 18

Pattern: The arrangement of identifiable repeated or corresponding elements in a text. These include patterns of repetition or similarity

Question 19

[PV]

Answer 19

Postverb: add context to words and phrases by providing information about order, aspect, process, or weather. Post-verb suffixes can be added to make sentences more detailed and richer. These suffixes can express the possibility, location, or whole process of an action or concept.