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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
Aspect
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.
Mood
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.
Complement
a term used to describe a verb which links the subject and the complement e.g. That looks delicious, He became a teacher
Copular Verb
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
Auxiliary Verbs
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
Tense
a noun that is created by adding -ing to the verb-stem (e.g. Parking is not permitted)
Gerund (Do not confuse with Present Participle!!!! Gerund is a NOUN, Participle is a VERB)
A verb which does not take an object.
Intransitive Verb
A verb which, unlike the infinitive, is marked for tense, person, number e.g. plays, worked.
Finite Verb
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
Delexicalised Verbs
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/
Assimilationn
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
Juncture
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/
Elision
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
Intrusion
syllable sounds that become unstressed in connected speech and are often then pronounced as a schwa.
Weak form
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
Sentence Stress
