21st Century Grammar Handbook

parts of speech adjectives, adverbs, nouns

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21st century grammar
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parts of speech adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs. In those functions phrases obey all the rules that apply to the parts of speech,
though they may not change form or act in precisely the same way as one-word or simple parts of speech. That is, a verb may change form to agree in number or person
with its subject, while a verbal phrase might not alter in anyway or in the same way He is here, and they are here The verb changes (is conjugated) tore ect subjects di erent in person and number. But The photographer sees the sleeping gorilla and six sleeping cheetahs The verbal phrases sleeping gorilla and six sleeping cheetahs show no alteration in the adjectival form for singular or plural.
See agreement and conjugation.
Phrases equal the noun, verb, preposition, participle, or other part of speech at their core plus any modifiers, auxiliaries, or supplemental words that are part of them To reach the farmer, the apparent victim, the car had driven to the red barn standing on the sloping hill above the house in the hollow The phrases (and their types and functions) in this artificially complex example are the following:
“To reach the farmer (infinitive phrase adverbially modifying the verb phrase had driven”)
“the apparent victim (noun phrase standing in apposition to the farmer”)
“had driven (verb phrase as predicate)
“to the red barn (prepositional phrase adverbially modifying the verb and containing the noun phrase
“red barn”)
“standing on (verbal/present participial phrase adjectivally modifying “barn”)
“on the sloping hill (prepositional phrase adverbially modifying the verbal phrase “standing”)
“sloping” (verbal/present participial phrase adjectivally modifying hill and making up part of the noun phrase sloping hill”)
“above the house (prepositional phrase adjectivally modifying “hill”)
“in the hollow (prepositional phrase adjectivally modifying “house”)
The position and function of phrases in sentences dictate their punctuation:
Appositives are set o with commas; longer introductory phrases of any kind are followed by commas before the main clauses of sentences nonrestrictive phrases are set off with commas.
The entries for each part of speech contain more information on how they work and the rules that apply to them and equally to phrases.

Plural. Nouns that represent more than one thing or person are said to be plural, as are the verbs and pronouns that agree with them Dogs chew their bones (see
agreement). All the words in the example are plural. From the example it is clear that nouns form their plurals by adding s while verbs drops in their third-person
present tense forms (the dog chews but the dogs chew. Plural pronouns (like
“their” in the example) usually have distinct forms for plurals. See collective pronouns,
number, irregular verbs, and possessives.
P.M.
The abbreviation PM stands for the Latin words post meridiem” and means the time from noon to midnight Ill meet you at 8 PM The abbreviation is normally
capitalized or appears as small capital letters where this is typographically possible.
When you use PM do not add “o’clock” or such phrases as in the afternoon See also
A.M.

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