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.

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

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 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/

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

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

a noun that is created by adding -ing to the verb-stem (e.g. Parking is not permitted)

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

Omission of a sound or sounds in connected speech, often because it follows other similar sounds, commonly t + d Example: 'I don't know' /I duno/ or Baked beans /beɪkˈbiːnz/

A verb which, unlike the infinitive, is marked for tense, person, number e.g. plays, worked.

A verb which does not take an object.