The document contains definitions for 20 technical grammar and linguistic terms: 1) A helping verb used with the main verb of a clause. 2) Using more words than necessary. 3) A grammatical unit formed by a noun and verb linking together. The document provides concise explanations of various technical terms related to grammar, linguistics, and textual analysis.

1. Technical Terms Test
1) A verb used to help the main verb. E.g. Do you
believe?
2) Using more words than is strictly necessary.
3) A key grammatical unit. Formed when a noun is
linked to a verb.
4) The words ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’.
5) Moving a word to the front of a sentence to give it
prominence.
6) Words or phrases that are part of conversational
language, often figurative
and often difficult for non-native speaker.
7) A command verb.
8) The way words change their form to show, for
example, that they are singular or plural.
9) When a word, usually noun or verb is changed by
the addition of another word or phrase.
10) The study of spelling.
11) All that is written about the subject of a
sentence. E.g. He played forty times for England.
12) The basic information about a text. E.g. Author,
when it was written, genre etc.

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13) The style of a text, which is determined by the
context. E.g. The style of the Times is different to
the Sun. It can be informal or scientific. Etc.
14) The core part of a word to which prefixes and
suffixes are added.
15) The history of words.
16) The study of how words combine to form
phrases, clauses and sentences.
17) A stem, together with any affixes that depend
on it and possibly other stems (as part of a
compound stem), which can be pronounced by itself
in normal use of a language, e.g. in response to a
question.
18) Some words in a sentence have little or no
meaning of their own but instead refer to other
words in the same or other sentences.
19) A ____ is a sequence of paragraphs that
represents an extended unit of speech. (From Latin
word for ‘to weave’)
20) The omission of sounds, syllables, or words in
spoken or written discourse.