Noun – English editing.
Nouns are words used to identify people, places, things, and ideas. As a grammatical class, nouns satisfy most or all…
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Need as a modal auxiliary verb – English editing.
It is followed by ‘to’ and the stem of a main verb: They needed to rest, they said, but showed…
Need – English editing.
A verb that can be used as a normal MAIN VERB or a MODAL AUXILIARY VERB. For this reason it…
Neither … nor … – English editing.
When these two conjunctions are used as a pair the two expressions that are linked should be of the same…
Must – English editing.
A modal auxiliary verb used to express the speaker’s view of how necessary or desirable an event may be: ‘I…
Multiple sentence – English editing.
A sentence that contains more than one Finite clause. (As opposed to a Simple sentence that only contains one finite…
Morphology – English editing.
The study of how words are built up and how they change according to their use in sentences. With SYNTAX…
Morpheme – English editing.
The lowest unit of language that can convey meaning. You cannot break a morpheme down into anything smaller that has…