Adverb is any invariable word that accompanies the verb, adjective or other adverb, modifying its meaning. Example: I arrived early. This car is very good. He was just fine. Classification of...
Grammatical class or word class is the name given to the set that classifies a word, based on its syntactic and morphological structure. In the Portuguese language, there are ten grammatical classes, which...
Pronoun is the class of words that replaces the noun (noun). Its purpose is to indicate the person in the speech or to place it in time and space, without using his name. Noun pronoun is one that...
Adjective is any word that characterizes the noun, indicating its quality, defect, state, condition, etc. E.g.: good man (quality), naughty boy (defect), happy girl (state), rich family...
Subject is the part of a clause that interacts directly with the verb (with rare exceptions), according to syntactic analysis. In short, it consists of the syntactic function of what the rest of the sentence...
Vocative is a term of prayer – word or expression, which highlights the person or thing to which the word is addressed. It is always separated by a comma. Vocative is an isolated term within the sentence,...
Prayer is a prayer or prayer addressed to God or another spiritual being and is part of the rituals of most religions. It is a religious act in which man seeks to maintain a...
Euphemism is a figure of speech in the Portuguese language, a mechanism that aims to soften a word or expression that may be rude or unpleasant. The euphemism consists of swapping terms or...
Lexicon means dictionary, it is the set of words of a language, arranged in alphabetical order and with their respective meanings. Lexicon is the meeting of the proper terms of an art, of a...
Morphology is the treatise on the forms that matter can take. From the Greek “morphe” (morph = form) and (logos = study). Plant morphology is the part of Botany that studies the shapes and structures of...
Elipse is a figure of speech in the Portuguese language, which consists of the omission of one or more terms from a clause, which are easily identified from the context of the text. At...
Verb is a word originating from the Latin term "verbum", which means "word". In the Grammar of the Portuguese Language, designates the class of words that indicate action, a situation or change of...
Metaphor and metonymy are two figures of speech, more concretely, they are figures of words. A metaphor is a figure of speech that indicates two common semantic characteristics between two...
Noun complement is the term that relates to nouns, adjectives and adverbs, forming a meaning with these names. The nominal complement fulfills the function of completing or changing the meaning of a...
The back is the union of the feminine article a with the preposition a and with certain pronouns whose initial letter is also the a. This union is indicated orthographically through the use of the grave accent (à ), also...