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Grammar
: The corpus of rules and principles that describe how a language is used or should 
be used. Grammar can be 
prescriptive
(telling people what is correct and what is not) , 
or 
descriptive
(describing what how people actually use language). Grammar is constantly 
evolving, but it does so more slowly that vocabulary. As well as traditional grammar, linguists 
have developed other types of grammar to better analyse language, such as transformational 
grammar, as theorised by Noam Chomsky, or generative grammar. 
Imperative
: the form of the verb that we use when we give an order or a 
command. See
►
Imperative
. 
Indicative
: In English, almost all verbs are used in the indicative mood. The subjunctive, the 
other principal mood, is rare. 
Intensifier
: a type of adverb that is used to give extra force to the meaning of an 
adjective. Examples: 
very / extremely / most / highly
Metalanguage
: in linguistics, the words and expressions used to describe language itself. The 
expressions explained on this page are the essential terms used to describe language in English. 

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Modal verb
: Modal verbs, or modal auxiliaries, such as 
can
or 
must
, are used to express 
possibility, obligation, probability or futurity. See 
►
Modals of obligation
, 
►
Modals of 
possibility
 , 
►
expressing the future
. 
Modify
: in grammar, the word 
modify
most commonly means to give a specific meaning to a 
noun or verb. Modifiers include adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases.