In modern linguistic studies, the written form of language is given more emphasis than the spoken form for a number of reasons.

What the element ‘-es’ indicates is third person singular, present tense, the element ‘-ed’ past tense, and ‘-ing’ progressive aspect. Since they are the smallest unit of language and meaningful, they are also（）.

registers

The semantic components of the word “gentleman” can be expressed as（）.

As modern linguistics aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, and not to lay down rules for "correct" linguistic behavior,it is said to be （）.

locutionary act

The word “photographically” is made up of 5 morphemes.

“John killed Bill but Bill didn’t die” is a (n) （）.

In terms of the place of articulation, the following sounds [t][d][s][z][n] share the feature of （）.

A sentence is a （） concept, and the meaning of a sentence is often studied in isolation.