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better	"Better" is a word we use when we compare how good two or more things are. If your lunch is good, but your friend's lunch is very, very good, we would say that your friend's lunch is better. In grammar, we call "better" the comparative form of the word "good." [2/6 definitions]
clause	A clause is something in grammar. A clause is a group of words that has a subject and a verb that goes with it. A clause can be a whole sentence, or it can be one part of a sentence. Some sentences have many clauses. In the sentence "I had a bad dream because my brother told me something scary," there are two clauses connected by the word "because." "I had a bad dream" is the first clause, and "my brother told me something scary" is the second clause. The subject in the first clause is "I," and the verb is "had." The subject in the second clause is "my brother," and the verb is "told."
comparative	"Comparative" is a word in grammar. It is used to describe forms of adjectives or adverbs that show that they are comparing things. For example, the word "richer" is a comparative form of the word "rich." If one person is richer than another, the first person has more money than the other. Some other comparative forms are "better," "worse," bigger," "longer," and "heavier." [1/2 definitions]
definite article	the article "the" in English grammar. The definite article is used with a noun when one is referring to something that is already known or has already been talked about.
grammar	the rules for forming the words and sentences of a language. Some of these rules have to be learned. Other rules are already in the head of a native speaker. For example, a native English speaker would not say, "I a cat bitten by was," because the grammar does not make sense. When one learns a new language, most of the rules of its grammar have to be learned. [1/2 definitions]
grammatical	of or having to do with grammar. [2 definitions]
indefinite article	either of the articles "a" or "an" in English grammar. These articles do not restrict the noun to a particular person, place or thing. In the sentence, "A dog ran into my yard," the indefinite article "a" is used to show that it could have been any dog, and that a particular dog is not being named.
infinitive	An infinitive is something in grammar. An infinitive is the simple form of a verb that often has the word "to" in front of it. "To go," to run," to forget" are phrases that show infinitives. An infinitive has no subject and does not show the time of an action. Words like "went," "ran," and "forgot," for example, are not infinitives because they show past time. These would also not be used without some subject like "we" "they," "I," or "my mom."
irregular	being an exception to the general rules of grammar or spelling. [1/4 definitions]
object	An "object" is something in the grammar of a language. An object in a sentence is a noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb or finishes the idea expressed in the verb. In the sentence, "I forgot my pen," the noun phrase "my pen" is the object. It is the thing that this person forgot. In a typical sentence, the object follows right after the verb. A noun that follows a preposition, like the noun "sports" in the phrase "about sports" or the noun "lemon" in the phrase "with lemon," is also called an "object," or an "object of a preposition." [1/5 definitions]
passive	"Passive" is a word that describes something in grammar. Think about this sentence: "Jade baked the cookies." Then think about another sentence: "The cookies were baked by Jade." The same thing actually happens in these two sentences. There is baking and the result is cookies. But the first sentence, "Jade baked the cookies," is called an "active" statement, and the second sentence,"The cookies were baked by Jade," is called a "passive" statement. In passive statements, sometimes the person or thing doing the action of the verb--causing what happens--is not even mentioned. [1/2 definitions]
past	In grammar, a "past" form of a verb is a form that tells you that the action of the verb happened sometime before now. When we say "I walked there," the form "walked" means the same thing as "walk," but we know the walking happened some time before now--in the past--because of the past form "walked." In grammar, we say that forms like "walked" or "slept" are "past tense" forms. A "tense" is a way a language has of showing the time of the action of the verb--whether the time is now, before now, or in the future. [1/12 definitions]
possessive	showing ownership through grammar. [1/3 definitions]
present¹	In grammar, when we say that a verb is in the present tense, we mean that the verb describes something that is happening now. "Is," "am," "walks," and "throws" are examples of verbs in the present tense. These are different from words like "was," "walked," and "threw" because these describe something happening in the past. [1/4 definitions]
regular	having or following the most common pattern or rule in grammar. [1/7 definitions]
sentence	A sentence is a group of words that tells a complete idea. In grammar, a sentence always has two parts. One is the subject part, and the other is the verb part. The subject tells us who or what we are talking about, and the verb tells us things like what the subject does or did. "My sister" is not a sentence, and "walks like a duck" is not a sentence, but "My sister walks like a duck" is a sentence because it has a subject part, "my sister," AND a verb part, "walks like a duck." [1/3 definitions]
superlative	"Superlative" is a word we use in grammar. Words like "best," "smallest," "biggest," and "fastest" are adjectives in their superlative form. When we use this form of an adjective, or an adverb, we are talking about the highest degree or level of something. If a certain game is the best, then there is no game that is better. If a runner is the "fastest," then there is no runner that is faster.
tense²	When we talk about "tense" in grammar, we are talking about how verbs show time, such as past or present. The difference between "I like it" and "I liked it," for example, is a difference of tense. We say that the form "like" is in the present tense, and the form "liked" is in the past tense.

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