Comparison of various syntactic, grammatical and semantic classes, relations, categories

Introduction
	Because there are so many similar-sounding terms for various groupings of linguistic things, they are listed together here for clarification.

Compare
	Here are sample members of each group listed:
	Grammatical category (person, number, tense, aspect, mood, case, gender, voice) Syntactic category (NP, VP, noun, verb, yes-no question markers) Grammatical class (transitive and intransitive verbs; count and mass nouns) Grammatical relations (subject, direct object, indirect object) Functional categories (agent, patient, instrument [semantic roles]; topic, comment; definite NP)

Sources
	Bickford and Daly 1996 2–9

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Fact module: Comparison of various syntactic, grammatical and s...
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): Related terms
In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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