Ambiguity—The possibility of more than one meaning.
Apposition—When the meaning of a noun or pronoun is made clear or emphatic by the use of another noun or pronoun the two are said to be in apposition, e. g., John, the old pressman.
Auxiliary Verb—A verb used to help to express the meaning of another verb by showing its voice, mood or tense.
Clause—A group of words consisting of a subject and predicate with their modifiers and forming a part of a sentence: a sentence within a sentence.
Collective Noun—A noun indicating a collection of units considered as a whole, e. g., crowd.
Compound Words—Words made up of two or more words used together to express one idea.
Context—The entire writing from which a text or passage is taken.
Correlative—A term applied to pairs of conjunctions or other words or phrases which imply or involve each other.
Diction—The choice and use of words.