grammatical words help to give sentences their structure, rather than expressing a particular meaning. Examples are words such as ‘of' and ‘for'. 语法词汇的;虚词的
linguisticsnot following the usual rules of grammar. For example, ‘eat' is an irregular verb because its past tense is ‘ate' and its past participle is ‘eaten', not ‘eated'. 不规则的
linguisticsreferring to the relationship between a set of linguistic items that can replace each other in a particular context, for example ‘vase' and ‘book' or ‘on' and ‘under' in the sentence ‘The vase is on the table'
linguisticsin passive verbs or clauses, the subject is the person or thing that is affected by the action of the verb. For example in the sentence ‘The order was delivered the next day', the verb group ‘was delivered' is passive, and the clause is in the passive voice. 被动的;被动语态的
relating to something that someone says, when the words which they use perform a particular action, for example when someone says ‘I promise' or ‘I now declare you man and wife'
linguisticsa possessive word or form of a word is a word such as ‘her', ‘its', ‘Jan's', or ‘dog's' that shows who or what someone or something belongs to or is connected with 所有格的;属格的
referring to the relationships among linguistic elements that form a sequence in speech or writing, for example the relationship between ‘The girl' and ‘is singing' in the sentence ‘The girl is singing'
linguisticsa well-formed sentence follows the rules of a language correctly. This would usually be called a grammatically correct sentence. (句子)符合语法规则的