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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. Parallelism (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. [1] The application of parallelism affects readability and may make texts easier to process. [2]

  4. Vyākaraṇa - Wikipedia

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    Vyākaraṇa (IPA: [ʋjaːkɐrɐɳɐ]) means "separation, distinction, discrimination, analysis, explanation" of something.[9] [10] [11] It also refers to one of the six Vedāngas, or the Vedic field of language analysis, specifically grammatical analysis, grammar, linguistic conventions which creates, polishes, helps a writer express and helps a reader discriminate accurate language.

  5. Bengali grammar - Wikipedia

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    Bengali personal pronouns are somewhat similar to English pronouns, having different words for first, second, and third person, and also for singular and plural (unlike for verbs, below). Bengali pronouns do not differentiate for gender; that is, the same pronoun may be used for "he" or "she".

  6. Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi - Wikipedia

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    Publication of children books. Performing research-oriented works on Bengali language, literature and culture as well as arranging scholarships for researchers. Distribution of civil literary prizes. Publication of publish books on different subjects; Publication of the Akademi Magazine. Preservation of an outstanding library.

  7. Sandhi - Wikipedia

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    The linking /r/ process of some dialects of English ("I saw-r-a film" in British English) is a kind of external sandhi, as are French liaison (pronunciation of usually silent final consonants of words before words beginning with vowels) and Italian raddoppiamento fonosintattico (lengthening of initial consonants of words after certain words ...

  8. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language - Wikipedia

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    In 1991, it was called "The greatest of contemporary grammars, because it is the most thorough and detailed we have," and "It is a grammar that transcends national boundaries." [ 1 ] The book relies on elicitation experiments as well as three corpora : a corpus from the Survey of English Usage , the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus (UK English ...

  9. History of English grammars - Wikipedia

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    [26] Other books by Nesfield include A Junior Course In English Composition, A Senior Course In English Composition, but it was his A Manual Of English Grammar and Composition that proved to be greatly successful both in Britain and her colonies—so much so that it formed the basis for many other grammar and composition primers including but ...