| BASIC WORDS | |
| education | - everything about teaching and learning |
| Education | - the science of teaching |
| encyclopedia | - a great book of knowledge |
| language | - ways of talking and speaking |
| learning | - make an advance in knowledge |
| letter | - one of the 26 ABCs |
| operator | - words giving an act and a direction |
| reading | - getting news or knowledge from writing |
| reference | - authority; an encyclopedia is a reference book. |
| root | - base of a word |
| say | - make statements |
| school | - a place for learning |
| talking | - giving voice |
| teaching | - giving knowledge |
| word | - group of letters giving an idea |
| Letters |
| alphabet | - the ABCs, the 26 letters |
| vowel | - letters A, E, I, O, U |
| consonant | - the other letters that are not vowels. |
| long vowel | - the letter says its name. |
| Size Order of Language | |
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| letter | - the smallest bit in language - a, b, c, . . . |
| word | - a group of letters giving an idea |
| - prefix | - letters put on front of a word; un- |
| - suffix | - letters put on end of a word : -ed, -er, -ing, -ly, -s |
| - affix | - both prefixes and suffixes |
| expression | - a small group of words for an idea |
| clause | - a part of a sentence |
| sentence | - a group of words giving a though and ending with a full-stop mark. (".", period). |
| paragraph | - a group of sentences |
| page | - page |
| chapter | - a complete group of pages |
| book | - book |
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| Parts of speech |
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| noun | - a name for a person, place or thing. |
| - pronoun | - words for persons in the area -- I, you, me, he, she, it, they |
| - proper noun | - a given name, capitalized |
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| verb | - a word saying an act |
| operator | - words for an act and a direction |
| adjective | - word adding a quality to a noun |
| adverb | - word giving a quality to a verb, generally by addition of -ly
to an adjective. |
| article | - a, an, the |
| conjunction | - a word making a join : and, or |
| preposition | - direction words : at, from, in , over, etc. |
Beginner's Learning Glossary
Alphabetic Summary |
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| alphabet | - the ABCs, the 26 letters. |
| adjective | - a word that adds a quality to a thing. |
| adverb | - a word that makes addition or change of a verb and made by adding -ly to the end of a word to make the sense "in a ___ manner." |
| article | - a, an, the |
| capital letters | - A, B, C, etc. See upper case letters. |
| capitalize letters | - Start with a Capital letter. Sentence, proper noun. |
| conjunction | - a word making a join : and, or |
| communication | - talking, writing, reading, giving ear (hearing) |
| conversation | - taking and giving ear |
| consonant | - the other letters that are not vowels. |
| clause | - part of a group of words. |
| dictionary | - word book with authority giving sense of words. |
| derivative | - word formed from a root |
| expression | - a small group of words. |
| glossary | - word list giving sense of words used there. |
| idiom | - common wording that may have a different sense than normal. |
| lower case letters | - a, b, c , etc. |
| long vowel | - the letter says its name. |
| noun | - the name of a thing, person, place |
| number | number of things talked about, generally one or more than one |
| plural | - more than one |
| preposition | - direction words : at, from, in , over, etc. |
| pronoun | - words for persons in the area -- I, you, me, he, she, it, they |
| pronunciation | - the way of saying words |
| sentence | - a group of words giving a though and ending with a stop mark. (".", period). |
| suffix | - added to the end of a word to make a derivative |
| speech | - the act or sounds of talking. |
| spell, | - put the letters in a word in right order. |
| spelling | - the right order of letters in a word |
| translate | - make a change of words from one language to another |
| translation | - that given by word change from one language to another. |
| tense | - time of an act: past, present, future. |
| upper case | - A, B, C, etc. See capital letters. |
| verb | - an operator saying something is or acts. |
| vowel | - letters A, E, I, O, U. |
| vocabulary | - words of a language |
| More Complete Senses |
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| adverb | - a word that makes addition or change of a verb, adjective or other adverb, generally by addition of -ly or -able to an adjective. |
| conjunction | - a word making a join : and, or, because, etc. |
| reference | - authority. an encyclopedia is a reference book.
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| - having relation to, said about. |
sentence
| - a group of words giving a though and ending with a full-stop mark.
("." = period ; "?" =question mark ; "!" = exclamation mark). |
| More Learning Words in Advanced Basic |
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| accent | - way of speech common with one group |
| accent mark | - a sign or mark giving the way of saying |
| advanced | - increased or make a step forward. |
| comment | - said as if not important. |
| context | - the sense when looking at the whole. |
| connotation | - a special meaning other than the normal. |
| denotation | - the right sense |
| definition | - the sense of a word or expression |
| idiomatic | - as commonly spoken |
| meaning | - the sense is |
| nuance | - has shades in its sense |
| topics | - a group of things talked about |