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intransitive verb	verb that does not take a direct object; see also transitive verb e.g. "He is working hard", "Where do you live?"
inversion	any reversal of the normal word order, especially placing the auxiliary verb before the subject; used in a variety of ways, as in question formation, conditional clauses and agreement or disagreement eg: "Where are your keys?","Had we watched the weather report, we wouldn't have gone to the beach", "So did he", "Neither did she"
irregular verb see irregular verbs list	verb that has a different ending for past tense and past participle forms than the regular "-ed"; see also regular verb eg: buy, bought, bought; do, did, done
lexicon, lexis	all of the words and word forms in a language with meaning or function
lexical verb	another term for main verb
linking verb	verbs that connect the subject to more information (but do not indicate action), such as "be" or "seem"
main clause	another term for independent clause
main verb (also called "lexical verb")	any verb in a sentence that is not an auxiliary verb; a main verb has meaning on its own eg: "Does John like Mary?", "I will have arrived by 4pm"
modal verb (also called "modal")	auxiliary verb such as can, could, must, should etc; paired with the bare infinitive of a verb eg: "I should go for a jog"
modifier	word or phrase that modifies and limits the meaning of another word eg: the house => the white house, the house over there, the house we sold last year
mood	sentence type that indicates the speaker's view towards the degree of reality of what is being said, for example subjunctive, indicative, imperative
morpheme	unit of language with meaning; differs from "word" because some cannot stand alone e.g. un-, predict and -able in unpredictable