English grammar and vocabulary

1. person a human being 2. case an occurrence of something 3. subject some situation or event that is thought about 4. article one of a class of artifacts 5. series similar things placed in order or one after another 6. sentence a string of words satisfying grammatical rules of a language 7. formal in accord with established conventions and requirements 8. singular being a single and separate person or thing 9. mood a characteristic state of feeling 10.phrase an expression consisting of one or more words 11. fragment a piece broken off or cut off of something else 12.modify cause to change; make different 13. compound a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts 14. negative characterized by denial or opposition or resistance 15. irony incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs 16. exclamation an abrupt excited utterance 17. clause a separate section of a legal document 18. syllable a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme 19. noun a content word referring to a person, place, thing or action 20. adjective the word class that qualifies nouns 21.verbal of or relating to or formed from words in general 22. conjunction the state of being joined together 23. plural of a grammatical category referring to two or more items 24. informal not in accord with established conventions and requirements 25. ambiguous having more than one possible meaning 26. complement something added to embellish or make perfect 27. contraction the act of decreasing in size or volume or quantity or scope 28. antecedent a preceding occurrence or cause or event 29. pronoun a function word that is used in place of a noun 30 capitalize write in large alphabetic characters 31. jargon technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject 32 . predicate involve as a necessary condition or consequence 33. punctuation the use of marks to clarify meaning of written material 34 .superlative highest in quality 35. demonstrative a pronoun that points out an intended referent 36. redundant more than is needed, desired, or required 37. participle a form of the verb used as an adjective 38. adverb a word that modifies something other than a noun 39. abbreviation shortening something by omitting parts of it 40. preposition a word before a noun or pronoun connecting to another word 41. nomenclature a system of words used to name things in a discipline 42. infinitive the uninflected form of the verb 43. cliche a trite or obvious remark 44. wordy using or containing too many words 45. interjection an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion 46. capital letter one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis 47. stilted artificially formal or stiff 48. ligature the act of tying or binding things together 49. part of speech a class of words distinguished by its function in a sentence 50. ellipsis a mark indicating that words have been omitted 51. acronym a word formed from the initial letters of several words 52. objective case the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb 53. modifier a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb 54. possessive case the case expressing ownership 55. nominative case the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb 56. gerund a noun formed from a verb 57. relative pronoun a pronoun (as `that' or `which' or `who') that introduces a relative clause referring to some antecedent 58. direct object the object that receives the direct action of the verb