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  2. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    Teachers and textbook writers often invent rules which their students and readers repeat and perpetuate. These rules are usually statements about English usage which the authors imagine to be, as a rule, true. But statements of this kind are extremely difficult to formulate both simply and accurately.

  3. Inevitable discovery - Wikipedia

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    The inevitable discovery doctrine was first adopted by the United States Supreme Court in Nix v. Williams in 1984. [2] [3] In that case, Williams, the defendant, challenged the admissibility of evidence about the location and condition of the victim's body, given that it had been obtained from him in violation of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation e.g. stands for the Latin exempli gratiā "for example", and should be used when the example(s) given are just one or a few of many. The abbreviation i.e. stands for the Latin id est "that is", and is used to give the only example(s) or to otherwise qualify the statement just made.

  5. Anyways - Wikipedia

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    Anyways may refer to: Anyways or the title song, by Young Nudy, 2020; Anyways or the title song, by the Starting Line, 2016 ... Anyway (disambiguation)

  6. What is Rule of 78 and how can it impact loans? - AOL

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    For example, you would pay 12/78 of the interest in the first month of the loan, 11/78 of the interest in the second month and so on. ... Rule of 78 vs. simple interest. While the Rule of 78 can ...

  7. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...

  8. “What’s The Most Frugal Thing You Do?” (50 Answers) - AOL

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    Image credits: Genie_noteC #5. I cut open all my product containers and use every last drop. It's more about not wasting stuff, but it's also frugal. You would be surprised how much product can be ...

  9. Divide and choose - Wikipedia

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    This rule is a concrete application of the veil of ignorance concept. The divide and choose method does not guarantee that each person gets exactly half the cake by their own valuations -- the cutter may perceive the advantage of parts of the cake differently from the chooser and anyways the chooser chooses what he thinks is the better half.