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idiomatic: Natural to a native speaker.

indirect object: A noun or noun phrase affected or acted upon by the verb and

the direct object.

infix: An affix that is inserted into the middle of words.

initialism: A type of abbreviated word usually formed from the first letters of

each word in a phrase. In strict linguistic usage, an initialism is said as a series of
letters, whereas an acronym is pronounced as a word.

morphological: Related to the forms and formation of words.

participle: A word operating as an adjective that has been formed from a verb.

phrase: A group of words that contains a cohesive meaning but cannot operate
as a clause or sentence.

plural: More than one.

predicate: The part of the sentence that contains the verb being performed by
the subject.

prefix: An affix added to the beginning of a word or root.

prose: Written or spoken language not conforming to any special meter.

register: The degree to which speech or text is formal and informal, or signals
the speaker’s membership in a social class, profession, or other cohesive group.

root: A word or smaller language component that contains meaning and can be
used as a base to make other words.

singular: Just one. Not plural.

style: The form and appearance of written language, or a combination of register

and usage that matches a certain context.

suffix: An affix added to the end of a word or root.