Language Arts

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (7)
  2. 6. The word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence (4)
  3. 7. An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences (11)
  4. 10. The case expressing ownership (10)
  5. 11. A word that is more specific than a given word (11)
  6. 13. The word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition (4)
  7. 14. A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage (9)
  8. 15. An expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence (6)

Down

  1. 1. A conceptual whole made up of ___ and related parts (7)
  2. 2. A function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase (plural) (8)
  3. 4. The word class that qualifies nouns (9)
  4. 5. A function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a ___ phrase (11)
  5. 7. A whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts (8)
  6. 8. A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply (8)
  7. 9. The mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word (10)
  8. 12. A content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb (plural) (9)