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Sentence

The largest independent unit of grammar: it begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point.


Singular

The simplest form of a noun (the form that appears in a dictionary): a category of number denoting one person, thing, or instance.


Statement

A written or spoken announcement on an important subject that someone makes in public.


Subject

It is the part of a sentence or clause that commonly indicates (a) what it is about, or (b) who or what performs the action.


Suffix

A letter or group of letters added to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending.


Superlative

The form of an adjective that suggests the most or the least of something.


Synonym

A word that has the same meaning as another word in the same language.