Interactivity

Many of the pages on this site are interactive. This means that by mousing over or clicking on certain parts of a page more information or explanations are revealed. There are also drag and drop elements to help you test your understanding, multiple choice and true/false tests and animations. Most explanations are based on real texts. Where real texts are used, links to the original text are provided. In some cases the excerpts used for explanation can be expanded to reveal the full original text by clicking on this icon . None of the original texts have been altered in any way.

Examples

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Text which is underlined in this wayMousing over the underlined words reveals extra informaion. gives further information about the underlined words when you mouse over them.

You can see more information about using the interactive content in this site in this video:

Definitions and Searching the Site

As with any discipline See the glossary definition , there are words and phrases used in a particular way and with a particular meaning when discussing the the topics of writing and text. For this reason we have included a glossary See the glossary definition page which explains many of these terms.

You can also click on the search icon at the top of each page to bring up the search page Go to the Search page if you are looking for a particular topic.

Quick links to selected glossary definitions

Noun	Verb	Adjective	Adverb
abstract noun	activity verb	adjective	adverb
animate noun	aspectual verb	adjective complement	adverb complement of a preposition
collective noun	auxiliary verb	adjective phrase	adverb forms
common noun	causative verbs	attributive adjective	adverb phrase
compound noun	communication verbs	comparative	adverb phrase roles
concrete noun	complex transitive verb	compound adjective	adverb uses
countable noun	ditransitive verb	degree complements	adverbial particle
deverbal noun	dynamic verb	gradable adjective	adverbials
mass noun	existence verb	participial adjective	approximators
modal noun	finite verb	postposed adjective	degree complement of adverbs
noun complement clause	irregular verb	predicative adjective	diminishers
noun phrase	lexical verb	proper adjective	relative adverb
proper noun	mental verb	superlative	transition adverbial
shell noun	modal verb
uncountable noun	monotransitive verb
	non-finite verb
	occurrence verb
	phrasal verb
	phrasal-prepositional verb
	prepositional verb
	primary verb
	stative verb
	transitive verb
	verb phrase

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