The smallest meaningful unit of language that cannot be broken into smaller parts.
A word can be composed of one or more morphemes (girl: 1 morpheme; girls: 2 morphemes).
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The building blocks of the English sentence.
They are of nine kinds: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives,
adverbs, prepositions, articles, conjunctions, and interjections.
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A group of words that stand together as a single unit,
typically as a part of a clause or a sentence.
It cannot convey a complete thought.
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A group of words that makes a statement about someone or something.
It may stand by itself to express a complete thought (Independent clause),
or it may depend on some additional words to complete its meaning (Dependent Clause).
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A group of related words that expresses a complete thought needing no other words
to complete its meaning. It has (at least) one subject
and a predicate (Bill plays football very well).
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