Term Type and Grammatical Type

A Term has attributes that define its type. The attributes of a term are contained in two lists.

The term types can be activated or deactivated depending on the word you wish to add or modify. They are as follows:

- Unknown: Activated when the type of word is unknown or cannot be determined. This attribute deactivates all other attributes.

- Abbreviation: Activated when the word is an abbreviation.

- Accent: Activated when the word contains letters with accents or diacritical marks.

- Acronym: Activated when the word is an acronym.

- Elision: Activated when the word loses the final vowel for euphonic purposes. Usually, a word with elision retains the apostrophe as the last character.

- Error: Activated if the word is incorrect. If the analyzer encounters the word, it will highlight it.

- Uppercase/lowercase: Activated if the word retains uppercase and lowercase letters exactly as entered. This attribute is usually useful for proper nouns.

- Number: Activated if the word contains or is composed solely of numeric characters.

- Roman numeral: Activated if the word is a Roman numeral.

- Word: Activated if the word is a regular word.

- Compound word: Activated if the word is a compound word. Compound words are usually made up of two words joined by a hyphen.

- Punctuation: Activated if the word contains or is composed solely of punctuation characters.

- Symbol: Activated if the word contains or is a symbol.

- Truncation: Activated if the word is a truncated form, typically losing part of a word in a shortened or abbreviated manner.

A Term also has another attribute that defines its grammatical type. The available grammatical types are: unknown, article, noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.