noun Download 🔗Share A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath. Examples : "When the student accidentally dropped her textbook, a loud expletive escaped her lips. " curse language word communication linguistics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position. Examples : "The sentence is: "In the sentence 'There is a cat on the mat,' the word 'there' is an expletive because it doesn't refer to a place but just fills the subject position." " grammar language word linguistics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning. Examples : "The sentence structure is simple and easily understood by English learners. "The sentence 'There is a cat on the mat' can be shortened to 'A cat is on the mat' because 'there' is an expletive in the first version; it doesn't add any real meaning." " language grammar word linguistics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant. Examples : "The sentence began with an expletive "there," adding nothing to the meaning. " grammar language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
adjective Download 🔗Share Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers). Examples : "The teacher's lecture was expletive, filled with phrases like "honestly" and "basically" that didn't add much to the content. " language word communication curse Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading