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Adverb

A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

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Adverbial 76% connected

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

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Comparative 76% connected

Of or pertaining to comparison.

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Positive 76% connected

Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.

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Superlative 76% connected

Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Modifier 76% connected

One who, or that which, modifies.

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Qualifier 76% connected

One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.

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Adverbial 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Adverbial 74% connected

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Intransitive noun · 86% connection

a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

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Intransitive verb noun · 86% connection

a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

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Intransitive verb form noun · 86% connection

a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

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Transitive noun · 86% connection

a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

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Transitive verb noun · 86% connection

a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

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Transitive verb form noun · 86% connection

a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

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Adjective adjective · 85% connection

relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; "adjective law"

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Auxiliary verb noun · 85% connection

a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with

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Clause noun · 85% connection

(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence

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Coordinate clause noun · 85% connection

a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function

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Dependent adjective · 85% connection

(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or…

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Dependent clause noun · 85% connection

a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adje…

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Nominal noun · 85% connection

a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb

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Nominal phrase noun · 85% connection

a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb

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Noun noun · 85% connection

the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

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Noun phrase noun · 85% connection

a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb

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Predicate noun · 85% connection

one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements

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Prepositional phrase noun · 85% connection

a phrase beginning with a preposition

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-able unknown · 78% connection

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, m…

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Adjectival adjective · 78% connection

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

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Attributive adjective · 78% connection

of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify; "‘red’ is an attributive adjective in ‘a red apple’"

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Blank noun · 78% connection

A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated i…

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Comparative degree noun · 78% connection

the comparative form of an adjective or adverb; "‘faster’ is the comparative of the adjective ‘fast’"; "‘less famous’ is the comparati…

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Compound noun · 78% connection

a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…

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Compound word noun · 78% connection

a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes.; "Also c…

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Condition noun · 78% connection

A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligati…

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Desiderative noun · 78% connection

A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitiv…

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Desperate adjective · 78% connection

Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease…

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Get verb · 78% connection

To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or pa…

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