Recommended Abbreviations for Some Grammatical Terms

Parts of Speech:
Noun – n
Verb – v
Adjective – adj
Adverb – adv
Pronoun – pron
Personal pronoun – pers pron
Demonstrative pronoun – dem pron
Reflexive pronoun – reflex pron
Emphatic pronoun – emph pron
Reciprocal pronoun – recip pron
Possessive pronoun – poss pron
Indefinite pronoun – indef pron
Relative pronoun – rel pron
Interrogative pronoun – interrog pron
Determiner – det
Determiner, article – det art
Demonstrative determiner – dem det
Possessive determiner – poss det
Determiner, Quantifier – det q / Indefinite determiner – indef det / Negative determiner – neg det
Relative determiner – rel det
Interrogative determiner – interrog det
Preposition – prep
Conjunction – conj
Coordinating Conjunction (Coordinator) – coord conj
Subordinating Conjunction (Subordinator) – subord conj
Interjection – interj
Numeral – num
Cardinal Numeral – card num
Ordinal Numeral – ord num

Phrases, Clauses:
Noun Phrase – NP
Verb Phrase – VP
Simple, Complex (write the whole thing)
Finite, Non-Finite – F, NF
Adjective Phrase – Adj P
Adverb Phrase – Adv P
Prepositional Phrase – PP
Clause – Cl
Finite, Non-Finite – F, NF

Sentence elements:
Subject – S
Verb – V
Subject Complement – Cs
Object Complement – Co
Adverbial Complement – Ca
Object Direct – Od
Object Indirect – Oi
Prepositional Object – Op
Adjunct – A
Subject Postponed – Sp

Compiled by Marko Majerović

Department of English
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb