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Subsided house, called The Crooked House, the result of 19th-century mining subsidence in Staffordshire, England Mam Tor road destroyed by subsidence and shear, near Castleton, Derbyshire. Subsidence is a general term for downward vertical movement of the Earth's surface, which can be caused by both natural processes and human activities.
Parallelism: the use of similar structures in two or more clauses. Paraprosdokian: A sentence or phrase with an unexpected twist or surprise at the end. Paroemion: alliteration in which nearly every word in a sentence or phrase begins with the same letter. Polyptoton: repetition of words derived from the same root.
Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. [1] English punctuation has two complementary aspects: phonological punctuation, linked to how the sentence can be read aloud, particularly to pausing; [2] and grammatical punctuation, linked to the structure of the sentence. [3]
The reported rise in street robbery is considered to have largely been an invention of the press; fears subsided when press coverage petered out at the end of the year. The panic led to the Penal Servitude Act 1857, which increased the minimum prison sentence for offences previously punished by transportation.
As a noun, this word refers to the natural/ordinary language people use when speaking and writing (without rhyme or meter). OK, that's it for hints—I don't want to totally give it away before ...
It had the appearance of a volcano, and was attended with a noise as if 100 forges had been at work at once; it filled the air with a nausseous sulpherous smell; it rose from the mountains in the form of a prodigious thick smoak, and proceeded to the valleys, where it rose and fell several times; and at length it subsided in a turnep-field ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan will support companies that plan to relocate to the United States, including helping them find partners, the economy ministry said on Monday, outlining assistance it will ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hundreds of internal contractors working for the U.S. Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and some are being terminated after U.S. President ...