Foundational Korean: Grammar Basics
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Slang (속어) | ||
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DefinitionSlang is a type of language or words which are regarded as being very informal, more common in speech than writing, and are typically only associated with a particular context (e.g., workplace jargon) or group of people (e.g., skateboarding subculture). | ||
Structure (구조) | ||
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DefinitionStructure refer to sentence-level comprehension of language, including how the arrangement of words within sentences impacts the meaning. Language structure understanding helps speakres interpret the meaning of complete sentences. | ||
Subject | ||
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DefinitionTraditionally the subject is the word or phrase which controls the verb in a clause, and in certain languages, where the morphology also agrees by number/subject and/or gender. | ||
Subject (주제설) | ||
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DefinitionTraditionally the subject is the word or phrase which controls the verb in a clause, and in certain languages, where the morphology also agrees by number/subject and/or gender. | ||
Subordinate Clauses | ||
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DefinitionA subordinate clause, dependent clause or embedded clause is a clause that is embedded within a complex sentence. For instance, in the English sentence "I know that Bette is a dolphin", the clause "that Bette is a dolphin" occurs as the complement of the verb "know" rather than as a freestanding sentence. | ||
Suffix | ||
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DefinitionA suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information or lexical information | ||
Superordinate Clauses | ||
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Definitionhe terms subordinate and superordinate are relative terms. They describe the relationship between clauses in what is called the Clause Hierarchy - for example - [It was raining] when [I left home]. | ||
Syntax (통사론) | ||
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DefinitionIn linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. | ||
Synthetic Languages | ||
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DefinitionA synthetic language uses inflection or agglutination to express syntactic relationships within a sentence. Inflection is the addition of morphemes to a root word that assigns grammatical property to that word, while agglutination is the combination of two or more morphemes into one word | ||