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  2. Phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    The combustion of a match is an observable occurrence, or event, and therefore a phenomenon. A phenomenon (pl.: phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable event. [1] The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which cannot be directly observed.

  3. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    If separating words using spaces is also permitted, the total number of known possible meanings rises to 58. [38] Czech has the syllabic consonants [r] and [l], which can stand in for vowels. A well-known example of a sentence that does not contain a vowel is Strč prst skrz krk, meaning "stick your finger through the neck."

  4. List of syntactic phenomena - Wikipedia

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    A list of phenomena in syntax. Anaphora; Agreement; ... Inverse copula sentences; Movement paradoxes; ... V2 word order;

  5. ‘It brought me to my knees’: The Hum – a mysterious ...

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    The leader of the support group in Tannahill’s story, a man called Omar, links the Hum to the Schumann resonances, “a real-life geoscience phenomenon in which the Earth is hit by 8 million ...

  6. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

  7. Donkey sentence - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon is known as donkey anaphora. [a] ... Correctly translating this sentence will require using a universal quantifier for the indefinite noun phrase "a ...

  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. Putin accuses West of pushing Russia to its "red lines ... - AOL

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused the West of pushing Russia to its "red lines" - situations it has publicly made clear it will not tolerate - and said Moscow had been forced to ...