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Grammar Glossary - U
• uncountable noun • understatement • uniform resource locator (URL) • unity • upload • upper case • utterance
see mass noun
From UseE
uncountable noun
An uncountable noun has no
plural.
milk / water / wood / air
These nouns usually have no plural forms.
Uncountable Nouns are sometimes called
mass nouns.
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{Concrete Noun};
{Abstract Noun};
{Proper Noun};
{Adjectival Noun};
{Noun as Adjective};
{Collective Noun};
{Mass Noun};
{Substantive};
{Countable Noun}
From UseE
The opposite of
hyperbole, understatement is used to make something appear smaller or
less important than it really is. It can be used to entertain or to reduce the
importance of the truth.
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{Irony};
{Hyperbole};
{Sarcasm};
{Slang};
{Jargon};
{Tautology};
{Figure of Speech};
{Litotes};
{Rhetorical Question};
{Cliche};
{Allegory}
From LBH
An address for a source on the World Wide
Web, specifying protocol (the standard for transferring data and files),
domain (the computer, or server, housing the source), and path
(the location and name of the source). (See p. 197.)
From LBH
The quality of an effective essay or paragraph in which
all parts relate to the central idea and to each other.
(See pp. 45 and 75.)
From LBH
To transfer data or files from your local computer to another computer.
In writing, letters
can be written two ways; T or t. T is a
capital letter, or upper case, and t is
lower case.
Capital letters are used at the beginning of a
sentence and
for a proper noun.
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{Alphabet};
{Vowel};
{Consonant}
An Utturance is a complete unit of speech
(what one speaker says before the next starts), ranging from a single
word
to the longest uninterrupted speech possible.
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{Text};
{Sentence}
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