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An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word, or phrase, typically created by taking initial letters for example OEM for Original Equipment Manufacturer or shortening the word, for example 'Tues' for…
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Systematic variation/gradation of vowels in a word element, reflecting a change in grammatical function (e.g. sing, sang, sung, song).
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Questions about words spelled with either *-able* or *-ible*.
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English used and created by Indigenous Australians
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Abstract nouns are nouns denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object, e.g. love, experience, freedom, truth, danger, happiness.
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Questions related to academic English or English for academic purposes, i.e. the English used in higher education.
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Pronunciation characteristics of a certain individual, location, or nation. Generally does NOT include learning to speak with various accents or identifying accents. Use [diacritics] instead for ques…
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Acceptability (of a construction say) depends on more than grammaticality.
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For questions about 'acronomatopoeia,' or 'sounded out initialisms'
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Acronyms are words which were created by taking the first letter (or several letters) of each word of a phrase.
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a voice of verbs used to indicate that the subject of a sentence is performing the action or causing the event or process described by the verb, as 'kicked' in "the boy kicked the football"
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An adjective complement is a phrase or a clause that completes the meaning of an adjective. For example: "Anna was angry about your comment". (The phrase "about your comment" is an adjective compleme…
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Adjectives are just one of several different types of noun modifiers, typically used to premodify or describe a noun. Do not confuse adjectives with nouns used attributively to modify other nouns. Adj…
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with questions involving a phrase working as an adverb. Adverbial phrases may appear anywhere in a sentence. They make up one category of adverbials.
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An adverbial is any syntactic constituent able to take the place of an adverb, including adverbial phrases and adverbial clauses. These can serve as complements or as modifiers.
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