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  2. English language - Wikipedia

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    This has led some scholars to develop the study of English as an auxiliary language. The trademarked Globish uses a relatively small subset of English vocabulary (about 1500 words, designed to represent the highest use in international business English) in combination with the standard English grammar. [146] Other examples include Simple English.

  3. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    Since the vowel is an integral part of the consonants, and given the efficiently compacted, fused consonant cluster morphology for Sanskrit words and grammar, the Brahmi and its derivative writing systems deploy ligatures, diacritics and relative positioning of the vowel to inform the reader how the vowel is related to the consonant and how it ...

  4. Rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    Aspects of elementary education (training in reading and writing, grammar, and literary criticism) are followed by preliminary rhetorical exercises in composition (the progymnasmata) that include maxims and fables, narratives and comparisons, and finally full legal or political speeches. The delivery of speeches within the context of education ...

  5. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Grammar schools varied in quality during the Elizabethan era, but grammar school curricula were largely similar: the basic Latin text was standardised by royal decree, [22] [23] and the school would have provided an intensive education in grammar based upon Latin classical authors. [24] At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne ...

  6. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    The iamb, for example, is the most natural form of rhythm in the English language, and generally produces a subtle but stable verse. [62] Scanning meter can often show the basic or fundamental pattern underlying a verse, but does not show the varying degrees of stress , as well as the differing pitches and lengths of syllables.

  7. Alfred Russel Wallace - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English [1] [2] [3] naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. [4] He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on the topic.