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`4subject

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the person or thing the sentence is about.

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predicate

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makes a comment about the subject. It predicates.

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referent

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noun a pronoun refers to.

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semantic role

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the underlying relationship that a participant has with the main verb in a clause.

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agent subject

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doer of the action; acting deliberately; with intent.

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causer subject

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an animate being who acts without volition or an inanimate entity.

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instrument subject

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an inanimate entity which acts on someone or something or something else as an instrument.

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experiencer subject

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experiences a sensory perception or a psychological state.

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lexicalization

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the process of making a word to express a concept

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psych-verb

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expresses a mental state or event

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patient subject

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an entity to which things happen

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described subject

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described by information in the predicate

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located subject

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location is in the predicate

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empty It

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fills in for lack of semantically meaningful subject.

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cataphoric It

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semantic content is in a subsequent clause.

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transitive verb

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requires both a direct subject and one or more objects.

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intransitive verb

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does not have objects.

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direct object

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answers the question “What?”

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indirect object

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answers the question “To whom?” or “For whom?”

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ditransitive verb

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takes a subject and two objects.

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monotransitive verb

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takes only one; direct; object.

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transitive

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Subject + Verb + Direct Object

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intransitive

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Subject + Verb

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ditransitive

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Subject + Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object

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copula

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Subject + Verb + Subject Complement

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complex transitive

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Subject + Verb + Direct Object + Object Complement

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determiner

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a noun-modifier that expresses the reference of a noun or noun-phrase in the context; rather than attributes expressed by adjectives.

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article

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introduces NP into discourse

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demonstrative

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function words that reflect deixis

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deixis

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phenomenon wherein understanding the meaning of certain words and phrases in an utterance requires contextual information.

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quantifying determiner

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Ex - no; each; every; any

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genitive determiner

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Ex - my; his; our

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interrogative determiner

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Ex -which; whose; what

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predeterminer

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Ex - all the players; half the students; one third the cost

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postdeterminer

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Ex - the five players; a little money; every tenth person

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periphrastic genitive

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Ex - top of the world; home of the brave

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double genitive

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Ex - novel of Austen’s; friend of Bill’s

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group genitive

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the dentist who lives around the corner’s car

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collective nouns

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Ex - team; choir; committee

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anaphoric reference

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refers to topic already introduced into discourse

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reflexive pronouns

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Ex - himself; themselves; myself

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possessive reflexive pronouns

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Ex - his own bed; her own toys

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reciprocal pronouns

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Ex - each other; one another

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demonstrative pronouns

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Ex - this drives me crazy; that was really rude

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quantifying pronouns

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Ex - All; Both; Everyone

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indefinite pronouns

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Ex - someone; somebody; something; anyone

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partitive

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Ex - six bottles of; four pounds of

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