the grammatical term that refers to the part of the sentence that follows certain verbs and gives information about the subject of the sentence, e.g. He's a doctor. I feel exhausted.

verbs which are used to support another verb in a sentence and have a grammatical function such as showing tense, aspect, person, voice and mood e.g. be, do, have, will, may, can

a feature of connected speech. When two words are said together, an extra sound is sometimes placed between them in order to make them easier to say. Example: 'I am not happy' becomes "I yam not happy" with an intrusive /j/ sound

verbs that have little meaning alone but that can be joined together with many other words, so generating a wide variety of new meanings. eg. the get in get older

this term indicates, how in a verb phrase, the speaker or writer sees an event (representing, for example, degree of completeness or duration) regardless of the time of the event itself

a term is used in phonology to refer to the boundary between sounds where the speaker may pause slightly to show where the boundary is; this explains the difference between the pronunciation of that stuff and that's tough

syllable sounds that become unstressed in connected speech and are often then pronounced as a schwa.

a term for the forms of the verb which express the speaker's or writer's attitude to what is said or written. There are 3 types: indicative, imperative and subjunctive.

A verb which does not take an object.

the way a speaker highlights certain words in each sentence. It helps the listener focus on important parts and understand the speaker's meaning. Example: He's had a HEART ATTACK

a term used to describe a verb which links the subject and the complement e.g. That looks delicious, He became a teacher

a feature of connected speech when a sound changes to another sound because of a neighbouring sound e.g. in ten boys /n/ followed by /b/ changes to /m/ as in /tembɔɪz/

a grammatical category which is used to indicate the time at which an action happens by changing the form of the finite verb. English has two: past and present e.g. he walked and he walks