In grammar, an adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun. For example, the word "beautiful" is an adjective that modifies the word "day" in the sentence: It's a beautiful day.
(pronounced GRAHV, not GRAYV): The "backwards" accent (diacritic) mark that is written on vowels like à or è. (It contrasts with the acute accent on á and é. ) It has been used to write a number of ...
A complex consonant which consists of a stop followed immediately by a fricative at the same or nearly the same place of articulation. E. G. The affricate "ch" consists of the alveolar stop (t) ...