Grammar terms

Glossary of grammar terms


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reciprocal verb

A verb which describes an action in which two people do the same thing to each other They hugged.

referent

The person or thing referred to by a pro noun Although she was tired, Alice tried to stay awake.

regular verb

A verb such as work, live, start, whose past tense and past participle are formed by adding - (e)d to the form of the infinitive without toworked, lived, started . Irregular verb s do not follow this rule, for example, go– went–gone, get–got–got  speak spoke–spoken

relative pronoun

A word like who, which, that, that is used to introduce a relative clause , i.e., a clause that gives more information about something mentioned in the main clause This is the house [where Jane Austen lived].