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  2. Change of direction - Wikipedia

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    Change of direction (COD) is any activity that involves a rapid whole-body movement with a pre-planned change of velocity or direction. In elite sports , the speed at which an athlete can do a change of direction is especially valuable in court and field sports.

  3. Intonation (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, in This is fun, this is is at pitch 2, and fun starts at level 3 and glides down to level 1. But if the last prominent syllable is not the last syllable of the utterance, the pitch fall-off is a step. For example, in That can be frustrating, That can be has pitch 2, frus-has level 3, and both syllables of -trating have pitch 1. [22]

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    the English language (adj.) the foot-pound-second system of units [citation needed] (UK: Imperial) English (n.) spin placed on a ball in cue sports (UK: side) engineer: a technician or a person who mends and operates machinery one employed to design, build or repair equipment practitioner of engineering

  5. Functional shift - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, functional shift occurs when an existing word takes on a new syntactic function.If no change in form occurs, it is called a zero derivation.For example, the word like, formerly only used as a preposition in comparisons (as in "eats like a pig"), is now also used in the same way as the subordinating conjunction as in many dialects of English (as in "sounds like he means it").

  6. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    The large ball crashed right through the table because it was made of Styrofoam: ambiguous use of a pronoun: The word "it" refers to the table being made of Styrofoam; but "it" would immediately refer to the large ball if we replaced "Styrofoam" with "steel" without any other change in its syntactic parse.

  7. Indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    Some examples of changes in form in indirect speech in English are given below. See also Sequence of tenses, and Uses of English verb forms § Indirect speech. It is raining hard. She says that it is raining hard. (no change) [4] She said that it was raining hard. (change of tense when the main verb is past tense) I have painted the ceiling blue.

  8. Semantic change - Wikipedia

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    The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the English language and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. You may improve this article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. (January 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

  9. Transition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, they are an essential part of any language. In simple terms, a transition word demonstrates the relationship between two portions of a text or spoken language. By using these words, people can better build a sentence and convey what they are trying to say in a more concise manner. [3]