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Site: Plateforme pédagogique de l'Université Sétif2
Cours: Written Exp_ 1st Year (W.E_L1)
Glossaire: Essential Glossary
F

finite verb

and can stand on its own as a sentence. A subordinate clause needs to be attached to a main clause to be grammatically complete. One kind of subordinate clause, the relative clause, usually starts with a relative pronoun such as who, which, that, where.

fragment:

  1. An utterance which is not a complete sentence (in the sense that it does not constitute a clause). So, a phrase such as ‘A new dress’ used in reply to a question such as ‘What did you buy?’ would be a sentence-fragment (By contrast, a sentence such as ‘I bought a new dress’ would not be a sentencefragment, since it contains a complete clause.)

function

Expressions such as subject, specifier, complement, object, head and adjunct are said to denote the grammatical function which a particular expression fulfils in a particular structure (which in turn relates to the position  which it occupies and certain of its grammatical properties – e.g. case and agreement properties).