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Continuous

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Verb form (specifically an aspect) indicating actions that are in progress or continuing over a given time period (can be past, present or future); formed with "BE" + "VERB-ing".

Defining relative clause

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Relative clause that contains information required for the understanding of the sentence; not set off with commas; see also non-defining clause.

Dependent clause

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Part of a sentence that contains a subject and a verb but does not form a complete thought and cannot stand on its own; see also independent clause.

Conjugate

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To show the different forms of a verb according to voice, mood, tense, number and person; conjugation is quite simple in English compared to many other languages.

Content word

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Word that has meaning in a sentence, such as a verb or noun (as opposed to a structure word, such as pronoun or auxiliary verb); content words are stressed in speech.