ACCEPTABILITY
ACCEPTABILITY. A term in LINGUISTICS relating to whether a phrase or sentence is grammatically or semantically acceptable to a native speaker. Compare CORRECT, GRAMMATICALITY.
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• accepté (French: accepted; written on a bill of exchange)
• accepted
• acre(s)
• acreage
• acting
• actual
• address
• adjective
• advance… Clause , CLAUSE
CLAUSE. In grammatical description, a SENTENCE or sentence-like construction included within another sentence, such as because I wanted to in…
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