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  2. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    The comma can be left out without changing the meaning. There are several variations of this sentence pattern, although they do not work as smoothly as the original. Dutch language shares this same example, with the noticeable difference of not capitalising the initials of nouns, making it " Als achter vliegen vliegen vliegen, vliegen vliegen ...

  3. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    For example, "out" can refer to an escape, a removal from play in baseball, or any of 36 other concepts. On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in "inconvenienced") and other multiword expressions such as the interjection "get out!", where the ...

  4. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    Common nouns are defined as those that are neither proper nouns nor pronouns. [9] They are the most numerous and the most frequently used in English. Common nouns can be further divided into count and non-count nouns. A count noun can take a number as its determiner (e.g., -20 degrees, zero calories, one cat, two bananas, 276 dollars).

  5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Many common suffixes form nouns from other nouns or from other types of words, such as -age (shrinkage), -hood (sisterhood), and so on, [3] though many nouns are base forms containing no such suffix (cat, grass, France). Nouns are also created by converting verbs and adjectives, as with the words talk and reading (a boring talk, the assigned ...

  6. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    (slang) The police – specifically the Metropolitan Police in London, but use of the term has spread elsewhere in England one-off * something that happens only once; limited to one occasion (as an adjective, a shared synonym is one-shot; as a noun ["She is a one-off"; US: one of a kind]) on the back foot

  7. Nominalization - Wikipedia

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    Sentence examples Nominalized adjective: applicability; applicable (Adj) + -ibility: The applicability of the law in this case is debatable. intensity; intense (Adj) + -ity: The intensity of her gaze frightened the dog. happiness; happy (Adj) + -ness: Her happiness was a result of having her loving friends. Nominalized verb: reaction; react (V ...

  8. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Suit is a noun meaning an article of clothing; it is also a verb meaning to make/be appropriate. Suite is a noun meaning a set of things forming a series or set. [109] Standard: He got dressed in his new suit. Standard: Before leaving the hotel suite, she checked her lipstick in the mirror. Non-standard: That wall color will suite our apartment ...

  9. Determiner spreading - Wikipedia

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    In Albanian, either of these sentence constructions in (1) and (2) are grammatical to mean the good boy.In both of the sentences the determiner i marks the referent boy.It is noted that the determiner i is a morphological entity to mark the adjectival class rather than definiteness of the noun, as is found in Greek below.