Glossary - W
wh-word - a question word that starts with the letters ‘wh’ in
English
‘what’, ‘where’, ‘why’, ‘who’, ‘when’
Word classes - categories of words that represent the
grammatical function of the words
Noun, Adjective, Verb, Preposition, Determiner
Word function - the function a word has in a given
sentence. for example, ‘the book’ can be the subject of a
sentence:
‘THE BOOK is nice’
or it can be the object:
‘John gave me THE BOOK’
compare: word type
Word order - the order of subject, verb and object
in a language
SVO, SOV, VSO, OVS etc.
Word type - see word classes