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  2. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    Text from Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde featuring one-sentence paragraphs and sentences beginning with the conjunctions "but" and "and". This list comprises widespread modern beliefs about English language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be misconceptions.

  3. Free writing - Wikipedia

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    Free writing is traditionally regarded as a prewriting technique practiced in academic environments, in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time with limited concern for rhetoric, conventions, and mechanics, sometimes working from a specific prompt provided by a teacher. [1]

  4. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    The misconception that it is a death sentence stems from a decree issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran in 1989 where he said that the author Salman Rushdie had earned a death sentence for blasphemy. It is debated whether this was a fatwa. The word jihad does not always mean 'holy war'; its literal meaning in Arabic is 'struggle'.

  5. Three takeaways from the Columbia University president’s ...

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    Shafik said tenured professor Joseph Massad, who a day after the October 7 attack penned a piece online that labeled it “awesome,” had been “spoken to” by members of his department of ...

  6. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    Demonstrations of sentences which are unlikely to have ever been said, although the combinatorial complexity of the linguistic system makes them possible. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously (Noam Chomsky): example that is grammatically correct but based on semantic combinations that are contradictory and therefore would not normally occur.

  7. Loose sentence - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the writer wanted to rewrite the above examples, he could write: Bells rang. Their resonance filled the air with clangor, startling pigeons into flight from every belfry. Upon hearing the sounds, the townspeople rushed into the streets. They all stood in silence and awaited the news. She drove to the movies.

  8. Starting your first post-college job? 6 passive income ideas

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    Key takeaways. Passive income requires little to no daily effort to maintain and can serve as a financial cushion for recent graduates. Some passive income strategies include participating in ...

  9. Doublespeak - Wikipedia

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    The US National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Committee on Public Doublespeak was formed in 1971, in the midst of the Watergate scandal. It was at a point when there was widespread skepticism about the degree of truth which characterized relationships between the public and the worlds of politics, the military, and business.