A Glossary of Grammatical Terms, P - Z
participant
participle
participle clause
passive voice
person
phatic communion
phrasal verb
plural
plural-only nouns
polysemy
possessive pronoun
postmodifier
pragmatic function
pragmatics
predicative
prefix
premodifier
preposition
prepositional phrase
prepositional verb
present tense
principle of end weight
progressive aspect
pronoun
proper noun
prototype
question
recipient
reference
referent
referential it
regional variation
register
relative clause
relative pronoun
request
restrictive relative clause
reversed wh-cleft
rhetorical question
root
root modality
semantic role
semantics
sense relation
sentence
sentence form
sentence fragment
sentential relative clause
s-genitive
short passive
singular
situational reference
social variation
specifying genitive
specifying modifier
speech act
statement
stative passive
stative verb
stem
subject
subject predicative
subject–auxiliary inversion
subject–verb inversion
subjunctive
subordinate clause
suffix
superordinate clause
synonym
syntax
tag question
tense
that-clause
tone unit
topic sentence
transitivity
type–token ratio
unattached participle clause
uncountable
unit meaning
unit noun
valency
verb
verb phrase
verbless clause
vocative
voice
weak form
word
yes-no-interrogative
yes-no-question
zero article