... nuance of meaning in terms of grammar and semantics. In this article, we are to discuss the grammatical features [1,2] and semantic structures [3-5] of the English words and idioms denoting the ... (‘exult’ and ‘rejoice’), and idioms (‘walk on air’, ‘in seventh heaven’, ‘on cloud nine’, ‘on top of the world’, ‘over the moon’ and ‘thrilled to bits’). All the lexemes listed are the headings of ... ‘sense of freedom’, and other nouns. These adjectives have their syntactic functions as head of adjectival phrases, pre-modifier of noun phrases and complement in sentences. ‘Joyful’ (adj) and...