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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. Quotation marks in English - Wikipedia

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    In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.

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    As the verb to buffalo, meaning (in American English [1] [2]) "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and; As a noun to refer to the animal (either the true buffalo or the bison). The plural is also buffalo.

  5. Hindustani declension - Wikipedia

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    English Example English Ergative: ने نے ne लड़के ने لڑکے نے laṛke ne boy उन्होंने انہوں نے unhõne they Accusative: को کو ko लड़के को لڑکے کو laṛke ko the boy उनको ان کو unko/un ko them Dative: to the boy to them Instrumental: से سے se

  6. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Removing the ko from the word sā̃p leaves it in the nominative case. Now, it acts as the direct object of the sentence and saperā becomes the indirect object of the sentence. The English translation becomes " Give the snake-charmer a snake . " and when the opposite is done, the English translation of the sentence becomes " Give the snake a ...

  7. Kissi language - Wikipedia

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    Kissi (or Kisi) is a Mel language of West Africa, There are two dialects, northern and southern, and both are tonal languages. The northern dialect is spoken in Guinea and in Sierra Leone . The southern dialect is spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone .

  8. Indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, speech or indirect discourse is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse.

  9. Constructed action and dialogue - Wikipedia

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    Constructed action and constructed dialogue are pragmatic features of languages where the speaker performs the role of someone else during a conversation or narrative. Metzger defines them as the way people "use their body, head, and eye gaze to report the actions, thoughts, words, and expressions of characters within a discourse". [ 1 ]