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Parent topics

• Language (general) [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. ^[e]
• Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]
• Grammar (linguistics) [r]: The structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any language; alternatively, the system of language itself, i.e. the principles common to all languages. ^[e]
• English grammar [r]: The body of rules describing the properties of the English language. ^[e]
• Noun [r]: Linguistic item with grammatical properties such as countability, case, gender and number; has a distinct syntactic function (e.g. acting as subject or object in a clause), and used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action. ^[e]

Subtopics

• English irregular nouns [r]: English language nouns whose plural forms do not follow the standard rule of adding an –s to the end. ^[e]

Linguistics

• Noun class [r]: System which categorises and marks the nouns of a language according to their meaning, form or pronunciation; commonly known as 'grammatical gender', but many languages have several noun classes. ^[e]
• Pronoun [r]: A pro-form that substitutes for a noun (or noun phrase) with or without a determiner, such as you and they in English. ^[e]
• Plural [r]: Grammatical form that designates, relates to or composed of more than one member, set, or kind of objects specified. ^[e]
• Case [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cranberry word [r]: or 'fossilized term', used in morphology to refer to exceptional compound words not built from productive rules, e.g. cranberry (no such thing as *cran-). ^[e]

Other related topics

Grammar

• Functional category [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Grammatical number [r]: Grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one" or "more than one"). ^[e]
• Noun class [r]: System which categorises and marks the nouns of a language according to their meaning, form or pronunciation; commonly known as 'grammatical gender', but many languages have several noun classes. ^[e]

Linguistics

• Verb [r]: A word in the structure of written and spoken languages that generally defines action. ^[e]
• Adjective [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Adverb [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Preposition [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Conjunction [r]: Word or phrase that connects other items within a sentence, such as and in salt and pepper (co-ordinating conjunction) or because in Mary sighed because Bill was wrong (subordinating conjunction). ^[e]

English

• English spellings [r]: Lists of English words showing pronunciation, and articles about letters. ^[e]
• English phonemes [r]: A list of abstract sound units and their various spellings. ^[e]

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• British and American English [r]: A comparison between these two language variants in terms of vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation. ^[e]
• Noun [r]: Linguistic item with grammatical properties such as countability, case, gender and number; has a distinct syntactic function (e.g. acting as subject or object in a clause), and used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action. ^[e]
• Amphiboly [r]: The phenomenon wherein one sentence (or, more generally, one string of symbols) in a language obtains two or more constituent structures (see syntax) according to one grammar. ^[e]