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  2. For sale: baby shoes, never worn - Wikipedia

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    "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, and one of the most famous examples of flash fiction . Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication.

  3. Sales - Wikipedia

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    A sale can take place through face-to-face contact, via mail order, through a vending machine or through online selling. Other methods of selling include: [11] Agency-based sales Complex sales; Consignment; Consultative sales; Retail or consumer; Sales agents (for example in real estate or in manufacturing)

  4. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A major sentence is a regular sentence; it has a subject and a predicate, e.g. "I have a ball." In this sentence, one can change the persons, e.g. "We have a ball." However, a minor sentence is an irregular type of sentence that does not contain a main clause, e.g. "Mary!", "Precisely so.", "Next Tuesday evening after it gets dark."

  5. As is - Wikipedia

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    As is" is a phrase used to indicate the existing condition of something without any modifications or improvements. [1] The term is employed in legal, business, and consumer settings to establish that an item or property is being sold or provided in its current condition, [2] [3] with no warranties or guarantees regarding its quality. [4] [5]

  6. Auction chant - Wikipedia

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    The auction chant is a repetition of two numbers at a time which indicate the monetary amount involved with the sale of an item. The first number is the amount of money which is currently being offered by a bidder for a given item. The second number is what the next bid needs to be in order to become

  7. Sales promotion - Wikipedia

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    Both manufacturers and retailers make extensive use of sales promotions. Retailer-sponsored sales promotions are directed at consumers. Manufacturers use two types of sales promotion, namely: [4] 1. Consumer sales promotions: Sales promotions targeted at consumers or end-users and designed to stimulate the actual purchase 2.

  8. Point of sale - Wikipedia

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    The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place at which a retail transaction is completed.At the point of sale, the merchant calculates the amount owed by the customer, indicates that amount, may prepare an invoice for the customer (which may be a cash register printout), and indicates the options for the customer to make payment.

  9. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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    The declarative sentence is the most common kind of sentence in language, in most situations, and in a way can be considered the default function of a sentence. What this means essentially is that when a language modifies a sentence in order to form a question or give a command, the base form will always be the declarative.