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2. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

3. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English - Wikipedia

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   While targeting "English language students and researchers" (p. 45), an abridged version of the grammar was released in 2002, Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, together with a workbook entitled Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook, to be used by students on university and teacher-training courses.

4. List of Cambridge International Examinations Ordinary Level ...

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   English Language (Seychelles) — Yes — Seychelles only, candidates in Seychelles taking O Level English Language had to enter for this syllabus; last exam in 2008 — CIE 1125 English Language (Mauritius) No Yes — Mauritius only, candidates in Mauritius taking O Level English Language must enter for this syllabus or syllabus 1126 — CIE 1126

5. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language - Wikipedia

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   In 1988, Rodney Huddleston published a very critical review. [3] He wrote: [T]here are some respects in which it is seriously flawed and disappointing. A number of quite basic categories and concepts do not seem to have been thought through with sufficient care; this results in a remarkable amount of unclarity and inconsistency in the analysis, and in the organization of the grammar.

6. Chomsky hierarchy - Wikipedia

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   Marcel-Paul Schützenberger also played a role in the development of the theory of formal languages; the paper "The algebraic theory of context free languages" [2] describes the modern hierarchy, including context-free grammars. [3] Independently, alongside linguists, mathematicians were developing models of computation (via automata). Parsing ...

7. Phrase structure rules - Wikipedia

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   A grammar that uses phrase structure rules is a type of phrase structure grammar. Phrase structure rules as they are commonly employed operate according to the constituency relation, and a grammar that employs phrase structure rules is therefore a constituency grammar ; as such, it stands in contrast to dependency grammars , which are based on ...

8. The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage - Wikipedia

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   As some examples, the NYT Manual: Uses ' s for possessives even for a word/name ending in s; Gives rationales for many practices for which AP simply states a rule; Is strictly alphabetical and thus self-indexed, while AP has separate sections for sports and weather entries, and combines many entries under such terms as "weapons"

9. Link grammar - Wikipedia

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   Link grammar connects the words in a sentence with links, similar in form to a catena.Unlike the catena or a traditional dependency grammar, the marking of the head-dependent relationship is optional for most languages, becoming mandatory only in free-word-order languages (such as Turkish, [3] [better source needed] Finnish, Hungarian).