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- 04:18, 15 November 2019 Vestigial plural (hist) [346 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''vestigial plural''' is an irregular plural that exists because it is a vestige of an ancestral language. In English, there are two types of these stem-...")
- 03:41, 15 November 2019 Inflected plural (hist) [431 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''inflected plural'' is a plural formed by inflection. In English, most plurals are regular plurals that are formed by inflecting the noun with plural -...")
- 03:28, 15 November 2019 Irregular plural (hist) [629 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''irregular plural''' is a plural that is irregular. These may be irregular for a variety of reasons, listed below. * A stem-changing plural * An uninflect...")
- 02:58, 15 November 2019 Regular plural (hist) [404 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''regular plural''' is a plural that is regular. In English, regular plurals are formed by inflecting the plural -s suffix to nouns. There are var...")
- 02:47, 15 November 2019 Countable plural (hist) [294 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''countable plural''' is a plural (i.e. it has grammatical number of 2 or more) that is a countable noun (so we can differentiate grammatical number]]. In Englis...")
- 02:01, 15 November 2019 Sleep (hist) [677 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Sleep''' is a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity and inhibi...")
- 15:04, 14 November 2019 Resultative adjective (hist) [276 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''resultative adjective''' is an adjective that acts as a resultative. In English, these are placed in a postpositive position after a verb, e.g. Clean in...")
- 14:53, 14 November 2019 Common adjective (hist) [294 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''common adjective''' is an adjective that's not a proper adjective. Most adjectives are common adjectives. They are typically uncapitalised except at the sta...")
- 14:46, 14 November 2019 Proper adjective (hist) [332 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''proper adjective''' is an adjective that's typically derived from a proper noun, and thus like a proper noun is capitalised. For example, nationality adjec...")
- 14:23, 14 November 2019 Substantive (hist) [143 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''substantive''' is an umbrella term covering nouns and pronouns, or any other word used as a noun. {{stub}} category:Grammar")
- 14:17, 14 November 2019 Pocket dictionary (hist) [101 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''pocket dictionary''' is a dictionary that is pocket-sized, and therefore is highly portable.")
- 12:03, 14 November 2019 Minced oath (hist) [276 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''minced oath''' is a euphemistic expression formed by misspelling, mispronouncing, or replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or taboo term to reduce the original...")
- 11:33, 14 November 2019 Checking question (hist) [408 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''checking question''' is a question, asked by someone to check information has been passed and understood correctly. These are used in real life, e.g. in restaurants,...")
- 11:28, 14 November 2019 Pseudo-gallicism (hist) [525 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''pseudo-Gallicism''' is a pseudo-loan derived from French, i.e. a phrase (which may be a single-word phrase) in a language other than French, such as [...")
- 10:57, 14 November 2019 Readability metric (hist) [141 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''readability metric''' is a metric of the readability of a text. There are various of these. {{stub}} category:Reading")
- 05:20, 14 November 2019 Allomorph (hist) [488 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''allomorph''' (/ælə(ʊ)mɔ:f/) is a differing form, either spoken or written, of a single morpheme. For example, plural -s can be pronounced three different wa...")
- 04:26, 14 November 2019 Throw (hist) [494 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Throw''' (/θrəʊ/) is an English verb. Throw is an irregular verb - it has the 3rd person form "throws" (/θrəʊz/), the -ing form "throwing", but an irregu...")
- 02:36, 14 November 2019 Academic question (hist) [443 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''academic question''' is a question that is "academic" in the sense that it of little-to-no practical importance and therefore only of interest to academics.<ref>...")
- 02:30, 14 November 2019 Hypothetical question (hist) [249 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''hypothetical question''' is a question whose answer will have no effect. In English, we can ask hypothetical questions by using conditionals. The grammar of the...")
- 02:12, 14 November 2019 Blow (hist) [621 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Blow''' (/bləʊ/) is an English verb. Blow is an irregular lexical verb - it has the 3rd person form "blows" (/bləʊz/), the -ing form "blowing" (/bləʊ(w)...")
- 16:40, 13 November 2019 Retained object (hist) [184 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''retained object''' is an object in a passive clause that... [http://www.english-for-students.com/retained-object.html good explanation] category:Subjects and...")
- 16:15, 13 November 2019 Grammar checking question (hist) [958 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''grammar checking question''' (GCQ) is a checking question that can be used to check students' understanding of grammar. Most students at least know some grammar,...")
- 15:50, 13 November 2019 French plural (hist) [1,546 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''French plural'' is a plural that is formed in a manner typical of French. These are obviously, most commonly found in French itself, but many have been loane...")
- 15:27, 13 November 2019 Universal tag (hist) [312 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''universal tag''' is a phrase added to a sentence. In English, this is only used in informal speech. Examples include "yeah", "right", "innit" (contraction of "i...")
- 15:22, 13 November 2019 Imperative tag (hist) [483 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An '''imperative tag''' is a tag added to an imperative sentence.<ref>https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/tags</ref> It can help "soften" the imp...")
- 15:12, 13 November 2019 Statement tag (hist) [575 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''statement tag''' is a tag added to the end of a sentence to emphasise the truth of main clause of the sentence. In English this is very informal, but it's mo...")
- 14:59, 13 November 2019 Tag (hist) [606 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''tag''' (/tæg/) is a phrase (which sometimes can be a clause) added to the end of a sentence. There are different types of tags: * question tags are added to fo...")
- 06:33, 13 November 2019 Discourse studies (hist) [193 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Discourse studies''' is a subfield of linguistics that involves the study of discourse. {{stub}}")
- 06:19, 13 November 2019 Toponymy (hist) [306 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Toponymy''' is an academic field, a subfield of linguistics that studies place names. This, generally speaking, isn't particularly relevant to TEFL, however ex...")
- 05:51, 13 November 2019 Draw (hist) [894 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with ":''Disambiguation: see drawing '''Draw''' (/drɔ:/) is an English verb. Draw is an irregular lexical verb; it has the 3rd person form "draws" /drɔ:z/, the -...")
- 05:32, 13 November 2019 Past participial modifier (hist) [205 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''past participial modifier''' is a single-word modifier formed from a past participle. In English, there are two of these; past participial adjectives and...")
- 04:34, 13 November 2019 Lose (hist) [552 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Lose''' (/lu:z/) is an English verb. Lose is an irregular lexical verb - it has the 3rd person form "loses" (/lu:zɪz/), the -ing form "losing" (/lu:zɪŋ(g)/...")
- 03:05, 13 November 2019 Visual dictionary (hist) [421 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''visual dictionary''' is a type of dictionary that contains pictures depicting words (and sometimes phrases). These may be monolingual dictionaries or...")
- 01:44, 13 November 2019 Hurt (hist) [494 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Hurt''' is an English verb. Hurt has is an irregular lexical verb - it has the 3rd person form "hurts", the -ing form "hurting", but an irregular uninflected [...")
- 01:29, 13 November 2019 Fly (hist) [476 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Fly''' is an English verb. Fly is an irregular verb - it has the 3rd person form "flies", the -ing form "flying" but an irregular preterite "flew" and an irreg...")
- 15:45, 12 November 2019 Burn (hist) [1,261 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Burn''' is an English verb meaning "(to cause) to become damaged by fire".<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/burn</ref> Burn is an ambiregular verb - it has t...")
- 14:53, 12 November 2019 Constituent (hist) [274 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''syntactic constituent''' is a phrase (which may be a single-word phrase) that functions as a single unit within a hierarchical structure. The constituent struct...")
- 14:20, 12 November 2019 Bind (hist) [531 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Bind''' (/baɪnd/) is an English verb. Bind is an irregular lexical verb - it has the 3rd person form "binds", the -ing form "binding" but the irregular pret...")
- 05:33, 12 November 2019 Wind (turn) (hist) [754 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Wind''' (/waɪnd/) is an English verb. Wind is an irregular lexical verb - it has the 3rd person form "winds" /waɪn(d)z/, the -ing form "winding" but an irreg...")
- 04:58, 12 November 2019 Test for English Majors (hist) [700 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The ''' Test for English Majors''' (TEM) is a standardised test used in China for those who are studying English as their subject in university (i.e. their "major"...")
- 04:39, 12 November 2019 College English Test (hist) [723 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''College English Test''' (CET) is an examination of English in China. It is required for all university students whose main subject isn't English. Its Chines...")
- 03:46, 12 November 2019 General-past mixed conditional (hist) [557 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''general-past mixed conditional''' is a type of mixed conditional that combines the conditional clause from the second conditional with the consequential c...")
- 03:15, 12 November 2019 Sew (hist) [530 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|A man sewing. '''Sew''' is an English verb. Sew is an ambiregular verb; it has the 3rd person form "sews", the -ing fo...")
- 15:13, 11 November 2019 Sow (hist) [940 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Sow''' (/səʊ/) is an English verb meaning "to scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds)".<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sow</ref> Sow is an irregular lexical ve...")
- 14:54, 11 November 2019 Bend (hist) [534 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Bend''' is an English verb. Bend is an irregular lexical verb - it has the 3rd person form "bends", the -ing form "bending" but an irregular preterite and...")
- 07:31, 11 November 2019 Swim (hist) [321 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Swim''' is an English verb. Swim is an irregular lexical verb - it has the 3rd person form "swims", the -ing form "swimming" (with a double M), but the irregul...")
- 07:22, 11 November 2019 Syntax tree (hist) [149 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A '''syntax tree''' is a diagram used in syntax to show the internal grammar of a phrase or sentence. {{stub}} Tree")
- 07:14, 11 November 2019 Send (hist) [534 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Send''' is an English verb. Send is an irregular lexical verb - it has the 3rd person form "sends", the -ing form "sending" but an irregular preterite and...")
- 07:05, 11 November 2019 TV Tropes (hist) [790 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''TV Tropes''' is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of various plot conventions and plot devices, more commonly known as tropes, that are f...")
- 05:11, 11 November 2019 Nigger (hist) [1,073 bytes] Duncan (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{wikipedia|Nigger}} '''Nigger''', often euphemised as "the N-word" is an English word that is an extremely offensive racial slur that is directed against black pe...")
