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A glossary of linguistic terms, designed for A Level (UK) English Language Students.

Original glossary written by Steve Campsall - HTML version at http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/
Edited and converted to moodle form by Mike Green - mgreen@solihullsfc.ac.uk "

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Head word

The head or head word of a phrase is the word around which the phrase is built, i.e. the main word that determines the core meaning of the whole phrase, e.g.

in the noun phrase the old-fashioned door, the head word is door
in the verb phrase, might have been hit the head word is hit.