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  2. Crasis - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, a person going to a bank, a supermarket or a marketplace would say respectively Vou ao banco, Vou ao supermercado or Vou à feira. Crasis also occurs between the preposition a and demonstrative such as when the preposition precedes aquele(s) , aquela(s) (meaning "that", "those", in different genders), which contract to àquele(s ...

  3. c-command - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, sentence (3b) state that for all men, they all think that someone (he) is intelligent. In general, for a pronoun to be bound by the quantifier and bound variable reading made possible, (i) the quantifier must c-command the pronoun and (ii) both the quantifier and pronoun have to occur in the same sentence.

  4. Meanwhile, back at the ranch - Wikipedia

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    "Meanwhile, back at the ranch..." is a catch phrase [ 1 ] that appears in a variety of contexts. For example, it may be employed by narrators of American cowboy movies and TV shows to indicate a segue from one scene to another but there is often more to this than meets the eye.

  5. Transition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A transition or linking word is a word or phrase that shows the relationship between paragraphs or sections of a text or speech. [1] Transitions provide greater cohesion by making it more explicit or signaling how ideas relate to one another. [1] Transitions are, in fact, "bridges" that "carry a reader from section to section". [1]

  6. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  7. Kamala delivers new baffling word salad involving ...

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    Meanwhile, Xi and Putin lick their chops,” one warned. Harris and Martin charged that Trump’s rhetoric had targeted predominantly black voters in Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta with ...

  8. Semantics - Wikipedia

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    Semantics is the study of meaning in languages. [1] It is a systematic inquiry that examines what linguistic meaning is and how it arises. [2] It investigates how expressions are built up from different layers of constituents, like morphemes, words, clauses, sentences, and texts, and how the meanings of the constituents affect one another. [3]

  9. Adverbial phrase - Wikipedia

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    Modifying adverbial phrases combine with a sentence, and the removal of the adverbial phrase yields a well-formed sentence. For example, in (5) the modifying adverbial phrase in an hour can be removed, and the sentence remains well-formed (e.g., I'll go to bed); in (6) the modifying AdvP three hours later can be omitted, and the sentence remains well-formed (e.g., We arrived); and in (7), the ...