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Language (general) [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. ^[e]
Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]
Grammar [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Grammar (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
English grammar [r]: The body of rules describing the properties of the English language. ^[e]
Noun [r]: Linguistic item with grammatical properties such as countability, case, gender and number; has a distinct syntactic function (e.g. acting as subject or object in a clause), and used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action. ^[e]

English irregular nouns [r]: English language nouns whose plural forms do not follow the standard rule of adding an –s to the end. ^[e]

Noun class [r]: System which categorises and marks the nouns of a language according to their meaning, form or pronunciation; commonly known as 'grammatical gender', but many languages have several noun classes. ^[e]
Pronoun [r]: A pro-form that substitutes for a noun (or noun phrase) with or without a determiner, such as you and they in English. ^[e]
Plural [r]: Grammatical form that designates, relates to or composed of more than one member, set, or kind of objects specified. ^[e]
Case [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cranberry word [r]: or 'fossilized term', used in morphology to refer to exceptional compound words not built from productive rules, e.g. cranberry (no such thing as *cran-). ^[e]

Functional category [r]: Add brief definition or description
Grammatical number [r]: Grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one" or "more than one"). ^[e]
Noun class [r]: System which categorises and marks the nouns of a language according to their meaning, form or pronunciation; commonly known as 'grammatical gender', but many languages have several noun classes. ^[e]

Verb [r]: A word in the structure of written and spoken languages that generally defines action. ^[e]
Adjective [r]: Add brief definition or description
Adverb [r]: Add brief definition or description
Preposition [r]: Add brief definition or description
Conjunction [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Conjunction (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.

English spellings [r]: Lists of English words showing pronunciation, and articles about letters. ^[e]