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  2. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  3. 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.

  4. English determiners - Wikipedia

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    The words you and we share features commonly associated with both determiners and pronouns in constructions such as we teachers do not get paid enough. On the one hand, the phrase-initial position of these words is a characteristic they share with determiners (compare the teachers).

  5. List of Latin phrases (P) - Wikipedia

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    if you know how to use money, money is your slave; if you don't, money is your master: Written on an old Latin tablet in downtown Verona (Italy). pede poena claudo: punishment comes limping: That is, retribution comes slowly but surely. From Horace, Odes, 3, 2, 32. pendent opera interrupta: the works hang interrupted: From the Aeneid of Virgil ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Linguistic purism - Wikipedia

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    (December 2019) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Polish article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy ...

  8. Sic - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, the Latin adverb sic is used as an adverb, and derivatively as a noun and as a verb. [3] The adverb sic, meaning 'intentionally so written', first appeared in English c. 1856. [4] It is derived from the Latin adverb sīc, which means 'so', 'thus', 'in this manner'. [5]

  9. Dynamic and formal equivalence - Wikipedia

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    In semantics, the best-known types of semantic equivalence are dynamic equivalence and formal equivalence (two terms coined by Eugene Nida), which employ translation approaches that focus, respectively, on conveying the meaning of the source text; and that lend greater importance to preserving, in the translation, the literal structure of the source text.