grammatical agreement
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Grammatical number — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality Focus … Wikipedia
agreement — 1. Grammatical agreement (also called concord) is the correct relation to each other of different parts of a sentence, so that (for example) the form of the verb corresponds to its subject (The house was small, and its walls were painted white),… … Modern English usage
Agreement (linguistics) — In languages, agreement or concord is a form of cross reference between different parts of a sentence or phrase. Agreement happens when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates. For example, one does not say I is in… … Wikipedia
agreement — n. contract, settlement, treaty 1) to come to, conclude, enter into, negotiate, reach, work out an agreement 2) to carry out an agreement 3) to break, violate; denounce an agreement 4) a binding; contractual; ironclad; legal; tacit; tentative… … Combinatory dictionary
Grammatical case — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality … Wikipedia
Grammatical gender — This article is about noun classes. For uses of language associated with men and women, see Language and gender. For methods of minimizing the use of gendered forms, see Gender neutral language. For other uses, see Gender (disambiguation).… … Wikipedia
Grammatical conjugation — Part of the conjugation of the Spanish verb correr, to run , the lexeme is corr . Red represents the speaker, purple the addressee and teal a third person. One person represents the singular number and two, the plural number. Dawn represents the… … Wikipedia
Grammatical category — A grammatical category or functional category is a linguistic term encompassing, among other things: *Grammatical aspect *Grammatical case *Grammatical mood *Definiteness *Specificity *Animacy *Evidentiality *Noun class *Grammatical gender… … Wikipedia
Grammatical voice — In grammar, the voice (also called gender or diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.).When the subject is the… … Wikipedia
grammatical gender — noun a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness • Syn: ↑gender… … Useful english dictionary
