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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. Basic English - Wikipedia

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    Basic English includes a simple grammar for modifying or combining its 850 words to talk about additional meanings (morphological derivation or inflection). The grammar is based on English, but simplified. [9] Plural nouns are formed by adding -s or related forms, as in drinks, boxes, or countries.

  4. Absolute Beginners (David Bowie song) - Wikipedia

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    "Absolute Beginners" is a song written and performed by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. Recorded in August of 1985, and released on 3 March 1986, it was the theme song to the 1986 film of the same name (itself an adaptation of the book Absolute Beginners ).

  5. Absolute Beginners - Wikipedia

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    Absolute Beginners: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, the soundtrack album to the 1986 film Absolute Beginners. "Absolute Beginners" (David Bowie song), a 1986 single by David Bowie, title song from the above film. Absolute Beginners, a 2023 Polish television series; Absolute Beginners, a play written by Trevor Griffiths for the 1974 ...

  6. Absolute construction - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an absolute construction is a grammatical construction standing apart from a normal or usual syntactical relation with other words or sentence elements. It can be a non-finite clause that is subordinate in form and modifies an entire sentence, an adjective or possessive pronoun standing alone without a modified substantive, or a transitive verb when its object is implied but ...

  7. Absolute Beginners (song) - Wikipedia

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  8. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...

  9. Grammar–translation method - Wikipedia

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    The grammartranslation method is a method of teaching foreign languages derived from the classical (sometimes called traditional) method of teaching Ancient Greek and Latin. In grammartranslation classes, students learn grammatical rules and then apply those rules by translating sentences between the target language and the native language.