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TENSE REFERRING TO THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE THROUGH VERBS. MOOD EXPRESSING YOUR ATTITUDE THROUGH VERBS. VOICE SHOWING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VERB AND THE PARTICIPANTS. CONJUNCTION LINKING DEVICES BETWEEN WORDS, PHRASES AND CLAUSES. SUBORDINATION THIS DESCRIBES THE DEPENDENCY OF A SECOND CLAUSE ON A MAIN CLAUSE. DECLENSION MODIFYING NOUNS TO SHOW THEIR ROLE IN A SENTENCE. DIRECT OBJECT WHO OR WHAT IS AFFECTED BY THE SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE. INDIRECT OBJECT THE NOUN OR PRONOUN THAT RECEIVES THE DIRECT OBJECT. CASE THE GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF A SENTENCE. VERB VALENCY DESCRIBES HOW FLEXIBLY VERBS ARE USED AND COMBINED WITH OTHER WORDS. ORTHOGRAPHY THE STANDARDISED WRITING SYSTEM OF LANGUAGE. SPELLING & PUNCTUATION. CLAUSE THE SMALLEST GRAMMATICAL UNIT THAT CAN EXPRESS A COMPLETE IDEA. METATHESIS A SWITCHING PLACE OF TWO SOUNDS IN A WORD OVER TIME OR BY BORROWING. EXPANDED EPITHET DESCRIPTION (OFTEN INVOLVING A VERB) PUT BETWEEN AN ARTICLE AND A NOUN. ADVERBIAL A WORD OR PHRASE THAT TELLS HOW, WHERE, WHEN OR EXTENT. MODIFIER A WORD THAT LIMITS OR QUALIFIES ANOTHER WORD. MODAL PARTICLE OPTIONAL FILLERS THAT TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT THE SPEAKER’S ATTITUDE. IMPERSONAL VERB A VERB WITH NO CLEAR SEMANTIC SUBJECT. TRANSITIVE VERB A VERB WHICH HAS TO HAVE AN OBJECT. INTRANSITIVE VERB A VERB WHICH DOES NOT HAVE AN OBJECT. INTONATION THE VARIATION IN SPOKEN PITCH. STRESS THE EMPHASIS GIVEN TO A PARTICULAR WORD OR SYLLABLE IN SPEECH. DIAERESIS MARKS ADDED TO LETTERS THAT MODIFY THEIR PRONUNCIATION OR STRESS. CONJUGATION CHANGES TO VERBS INDICATING PERSON, NUMBER, TENSE, VOICE, MOOD, ETC. PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE ANY PHRASE HEADED BY A PREPOSITION. COGNATE SIMILAR WORDS BETWEEN LANGUAGES OR DERIVATIONS WITHIN A LANGUAGE. COLLOCATION WORDS THAT ARE OFTEN FOUND TOGETHER. CONNOTATION A SECONDARY MEANING TO A WORD OR EVOCATION CUNJURED UP BY ITS USE. SYNONYM WORDS WHICH SHARE A SIMILAR MEANING. ANTONYM WORDS WHICH, IN SOME SENSES, MAY BE CONSIDERED OPPOSITES OR EXTREMES. SEMANTIC FIELD WORDS CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER BY A SHARED CONCEPT. PARALINGUISTIC FEATURES COMMUNICATIVE FEATURES BEYOND LANGUAGE, SUCH AS GESTURES AND SIGNS. ACCENT PRONUNCIATION, INTONATION, PITCH, TONE AND STRESS. DIALECT REGIONAL OR SOCIAL VARIETY OF LANGUAGE: ACCENT, GRAMMAR AND LEXICON. POLYGLOT A PERSON WHO SPEAKS 4 - 8 LANGUAGES FLUENTLY. BILINGUAL SOMEONE WHO IS FLUENT IN TWO LANGUAGES AND USES BOTH REGULARLY. NOMENCLATURE THE TECHNICAL AND SPECIFIC WORDS RELATED TO A DISCIPLINE. ETYMOLOGY THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A WORD. STYLE LEVEL OF FORMALITY, FROM VULGAR TO HIGHLY FORMULAIC. REGISTER VARIETY OF LANGUAGE USED FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE OR SETTING. COMPARATIVE A WAY OF COMPARING TWO ELEMENTS OF A SENTENCE. SUPERLATIVE A WAY OF EXPRESSING ‘THE MOST’ OR ‘THE LEAST’. SUBJECT WHO OR WHAT PERFORMS THE ACTION. INVERSION SWITCHING AROUND THE SUBJECT AND VERB: SVO →VSO. AUXILIARY VERB A VERB USED TO ADD FUNCTIONAL OR GRAMMATICAL MEANING TO A CLAUSE. MODAL AUXILIARY A VERB WHICH ADDS ATTITUDE TO A CLAUSE. INTERFERENCE INFLUENCE FROM ANOTHER LANGUAGE ON THE LANGUAGE BEING LEARNT. RENDITION VERBALISING A CONCEPT OR IDEA. INTERPRETING TRANSFERRING ONE LANGUAGE INTO ANOTHER BY SPEAKING. TRANSLATION TRANSFERRING ONE LANGUAGE INTO ANOTHER BY WRITING. IN-GROUPING USING SHARED LINGUISTIC FEATURES TO SHOW BELONGING TO A SOCIAL GROUP. IDIOLECT AN INDIVIDUAL’S UNIQUE WAY OF SPEAKING, VOCABULARY & USE OF GRAMMAR. PHRASE A GROUP OF WORDS THAT SERVE A SINGLE FUNCTION IN A SENTENCE. INTERROGATIVE A PRONOUN USED TO CREATE QUESTIONS FROM STATEMENTS. AUTONOMY THE ABILITY TO BE CONFIDENT & INDEPENDENT IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. GENDER A GRAMMATICAL GROUPING OF NOUNS WHICH SHARE CHARACTERISTICS. ROOT THE SMALLEST UNIT OF A WORD THAT CARRIES THE ESSENCE OF ITS MEANING. INFINITIVE THE UNCONJUGATED FORM OF THE VERB. PREPOSITION USED TO EXPRESS RELATIONAL, SPATIAL OR TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS. PRONOUN USED INSTEAD OF A NOUN TO REFER TO SPECIFIC PEOPLE OR THINGS.