Collins Cobuild

50
,
69
plural
the form of a count noun or verb, which is used to refer to or talk
about more than one person or thing; eg Dogs have ears… The women
were outside.
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2
,
13
–
14
plural noun
a noun which is normally used only in the plural form; eg
trousers, scissors.
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14
positive
a positive clause, question, sentence, or statement is one which
does  not  contain  a  negative  word  such  as  ‘not’.  Compare  with
negative.
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21
,
29
–
30
,
41
–
42
possessive
one of the determiners ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘his’, ‘her’, ‘its’, ‘our’, or
‘their’,  which  is  used  to  show  that  one  person  or  thing  belongs  to
another; eg …your car.
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22
–
23
possessive adjective
another name for
possessive
.
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22
–
23
possessive  pronoun
 one  of  the  pronouns  ‘mine’,  ‘yours’,  ‘hers’,  ‘his’,
‘ours’, or ‘theirs’.
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22
,
37
preposition
 a  word  such  as  ‘by’,  ‘with’  or  ‘from’,  which  is  always
followed by a noun group.
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5
,
16
,
20
,