Glossary
The Englicious Glossary includes the new National Curriculum glossary terms, which are shown against a white background. However, there's much more to be found here:
- we have added many entries that we feel are important, but cannot be found in the NC Glossary (e.g. connective), and
- in many cases we have added information to the (often very brief) NC entries that need further explanation (e.g. clause and phrase).
Please note that in line with our practice throughout the site, we use capital letters for function terms such as Subject, Direct Object, Indirect Object, Modifier, etc. Although this convention is not followed in the documentation published by the Department for Education we have also done so in the text that forms part of the National Curriculum Glossary.
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Head
A grammatical function label which refers to the principal word in a phrase. For example, a noun phrase has a noun as its Head, an adjective phrase has an adjective as its Head, an adverb phrase has an adverb as its Head, and so on.
hedge
homonym
Two different words are homonyms if they both look exactly the same when written, and sound exactly the same when pronounced.
- Has he left yet? Yes – he went through the door on the left.
- The noise a dog makes is called a bark. Trees have bark.
See also homophone.
homophone
Two different words are homophones if they sound exactly the same when pronounced.
- hear, here
- some, sum
See also homonym.
