bare infinitiveunmarked form of the verb (no indication of tense, mood, person, or aspect) without the particle "to"; typically used after modal auxiliary verbs; see also infinitive
eg: "He should come", "I can swim"
base formbasic form of a verb before conjugation into tenses etc
eg: be, speak
caseform of a pronoun based on its relationship to other words in the sentence; case can be subjective, objective or possessive
eg: "I love this dog", "This dog loves me", "This is my dog"
causative verbverb that causes things to happen such as "make", "get" and "have"; the subject does not perform the action but is indirectly responsible for it
eg: "She made me go to school", "I had my nails painted"
clausegroup of words containing a subject and its verb
eg: "It was late when he arrived"
comparative,
comparative adjective		form of an adjective or adverb made with "-er" or "more" that is used to show differences or similarities between two things (not three or more things)
eg: colder, more quickly
complementpart of a sentence that completes or adds meaning to the predicate
eg: Mary did not say where she was going.
compound nounnoun that is made up of more than one word; can be one word, or hyphenated, or separated by a space
eg: toothbrush, mother-in-law, Christmas Day
compound sentencesentence with at least two independent clauses; usually joined by a conjunction
eg: "You can have something healthy but you can't have more junk food."
concordanother term for agreement
conditionalstructure in English where one action depends on another ("if-then" or "then-if" structure); most common are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd conditionals
eg: "If I win I will be happy", "I would be happy if I won"
conjugateto show the different forms of a verb according to voice, mood, tense, number andperson; conjugation is quite simple in English compared to many other languages
eg: I walk, you walk, he/she/it walks, we walk, they walk; I walked, you walked, he/she/it walked, we walked, they walked
conjunctionword that joins or connects two parts of a sentence
eg: Ram likes tea and coffee. Anthony went swimming although it was raining.
content wordword that has meaning in a sentence, such as a verb or noun (as opposed to astructure word, such as pronoun or auxiliary verb); content words are stressed in speech
eg: "Could you BRING my GLASSES because I've LEFT them at HOME"
continuous
(also called "progressive")		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"
eg: "They are watching TV."
contractionshortening of two (or more) words into one
eg: isn't (is not), we'd've (we would have)
countable nounthing that you can count, such as apple, pen, tree (see uncountable noun)
eg: one apple, three pens, ten trees