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Glossary of Grammatical Terms
‘I’
1. Idiom. A combination of words, a set phrase, whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meaning of the individual words.
2. Imperative sentence. The sentence in the form of a command. The imperative sentence includes the base form of the verb and usually an understood subject (you):” Eat your spinach”; “Finish your report as soon as possible”; “You go on without me.”
3. Indefinite article. The determiner a, or an, which marks an unspecified count noun. See also Definite article.
4. Indefinite pronoun. A large category that includes quantifiers (e.g., enough, severed many, much), universals (all both, every each), and partitives (any, either, neither, no, some). Many of the indefinite pronouns can function as determiners.
5. Indefinite relative pronoun. The relative pronouns with -ever added, which have indefinite referents; they introduce adjectival clauses: “I will give a bonus to whoever works the hardest” (i.e., to the person who works the hardest).
6. Independent clause. The main clause of the sentence; a compound sentence has more than one independent clause.
7. Indicative mood. The expression of an idea as fact (as opposed to probability). Verb phrases without modal auxiliaries and those with the will and shall are considered the indicative mood: “We will go soon”; “We are going tomorrow.” “When are you going?” See also Subjunctive mood and Conditional mood
8. Indirect object. The nominal slot following the verb in a Pattern VIII sentence. In a sentence with a verb like give, the indirect object is the recipient; the direct object is the thing given: “We gave our friends a ride home.” The indirect object can be shifted to the slot following the direct object with the proposition to or for: “Joe gave a message to Kim”; “Sam bought a ticket for his dad.”
9. Infinitive. The base form of the verb (present tense), usually expressed with to, which is called the “sign of the infinitive.” The infinitive can function adverbially (“I stayed up all night to study for the exam”); adjectivally (“That is no way to study”), or nominally (“To stay up all night is foolish”). The only verb with an infinitive form separate from the present tense is.
10. Infinitive phrase. The infinitive together with all of its complements and modifiers. Inflexion. See Inflectional suffix. Inflectional suffix. Morphemes that are added to the form classes (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs) to change their grammatical role in some way. Nouns have two inflectional suffixes ( -s plural and – ‘s possessive); verbs have four ( -s, -ing, -eth and -en); adjectives and some adverbs have two ( -er and -est).
11. Intensifier. See Qualifier.
12. Intensive pronoun. A pronoun that serves as an appositive to emphasize a noun or pronoun. It is formed by adding self or -selves to a personal pronoun: “I myself prefer chocolate.”
13. Interjection. A word considered independent of the main sentence, often punctuated with an exclamation point: “Ouch!My shoe pinches”; “Oh! Is that what you meant?”
14. Interrogative. One of the structure classes. Sometimes referred to as “who-words,” the interrogatives—where, when, who, what, and how—introduce questions and nominal clauses, filling the roles of nouns, adjectives, and adverbs in their clauses: ” Where is she going?” “I wonder who is going with her.”
15. Interrogative sentence. A sentence that is a question in the form: “Are you leaving now?” “When are you leaving?”
16. Intonation. The rhythmic pattern of a spoken sentence, affected by its stress and pitch and pauses.
17. Intransitive verb. The verbs of Pattern VI sentences, most of which require no compliment to be complete.
18. Irregular verb. Any verb in which the end -en forms are not that of the regular verb; in other words, a verb in which the past tense and past participle forms are not simply the addition of -the -ed, or -t to the base form.
19. It-cleft. See Cleft sentence.
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