In morphology, a clitic is a grammatically independent and phonologically dependent morpheme. It is pronounced like an affix, but works at the phrase level. Clitics may belong to any grammatical category, though they are commonly pronouns, determiners, or adpositions. Note that spelling isn't a good guide for identifying clitics, clitics may be spelled as independent words, bound affixes or separated by special characters (for example apostrophe). Classification A clitic that precedes its host… (More on Enclitic)