Grammatical Terms Starting with N

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Grammatical Terms are difficult to understand but we are giving such usage grammar that will clarify many of your doubts like grammer or grammar because this is a complete grammar list of items.

Glossary of Grammatical Terms

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1. Nominal. Any structure that functions as a noun phrase normally functions.

2. Nominal clause. A clause that fills a noun phrase (NP) slot.

3. Nominalization.  The process of producing a noun by adding derivational affixes to another word class, commonly a verb: legalize–legalization; regulate–regulation; friendly–friendliness.

4. Nominative case. The Latin term for the subjective

5. Non-countable noun. Nouns referring to what might be called an undifferentiated mass—such as wood water, sugar, glass—or an abstraction—justice, love, indifference. Whether or not you can use the indefinite article, a, is probably the best test of countability: If you can, the noun is countable.

6. Nonfinite verb phrase. A verb phrase that functions other than as a predicate. Verbs and verb phrases acting as adjectivals, adverbials, and nominals within the sentence are non-finite.

7. Nonrestrictive modifier. A modifier in the noun phrase that comments about the noun rather than defines it. Nonrestrictive modifiers following the noun are set off by commas.

8. Noun. One of the four form classes, whose members fill the headword slot in the noun phrase. Most nouns can be inflected for the plural and possessive (boy, boys, boy’s, boys’). Nouns have characteristic derivational endings, such as -tion (action, compensation), -meant (contentment), and -ness (happiness). Nouns can also function as adjectivals and adverbials (The neighbour children went home).

9. Noun clause. See Nominal clause.

10. Noun phrase (NP). The noun headword with all of its attendant pre-and post noun modifiers.

11. Number.  A feature of nouns and pronouns, referring to singular and plural.

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