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  2. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The personal pronouns retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class (a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English). For other pronouns, and all nouns, adjectives, and articles, grammatical function is indicated only by word order , by prepositions , and by the " Saxon genitive or English possessive ...

  3. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...

  4. Implicature - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, implicatures can arise even if, or precisely because, the communicator is uncooperative. Relevance theory can therefore effortlessly account for the above example about Gérard: If B knows where Gérard lives, and "Somewhere in the South of France" is the most relevant answer compatible with B's preferences, it follows that B is ...

  5. Sensitivity analysis - Wikipedia

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    The points in the four scatterplots are always the same though sorted differently, i.e. by Z 1, Z 2, Z 3, Z 4 in turn. Note that the abscissa is different for each plot: (−5, +5) for Z 1, (−8, +8) for Z 2, (−10, +10) for Z 3 and Z 4. Z 4 is most important in influencing Y as it imparts more 'shape' on Y.

  6. School choice in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] [10] In Zelman v. Simmons-Harris in 2002, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that school vouchers could be used to pay for education in sectarian schools without violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. As a result, states are free to enact voucher programs that provide funding for any school of the parent ...

  7. Prehistoric Chinese religions - Wikipedia

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    Although the theory formed independently, it bears strong similarities to Western contemporary theories of social development, and thus received support from the West. [8] [9] During the first decades of the People's Republic of China, Marxist historiography dominated studies of the Chinese past. [10]

  8. Archibald Cox - Wikipedia

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    Cox was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1912, the son of Archibald and Frances "Fanny" Bruen Perkins Cox, the eldest of seven children. [a] His father Archibald Sr. (Harvard College, 1896; Harvard Law School, 1899 [4]) was the son of a Manhattan lawyer, Rowland Cox, and rose to prominence as a patent and trademark lawyer, and who wrote Cox's Manual on Trade Marks.

  9. Lang-8.com - Wikipedia

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    Lang-8.com was a language exchange social networking website geared towards language learners. The website was run by Lang-8 Inc., which was based in Tokyo , Japan . As of 2017, there were over 750,000 registered users spanning more than 190 countries and 90 languages.