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  2. Specificity (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The former leads predominantly to a specific noun phrase. The latter can be either specific or non-specific. [1] I'm looking for the manager, Ms Lee. [definite, specific] I'm looking for the manager, whoever that may be. [definite, non-specific] There's a certain word that I can never remember. [indefinite, specific] Think of a word, any word.

  3. Help:Searching/Features - Wikipedia

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    An "Exact phrase" or a word will match in a title. And creating a phrase "with tilde"~ just turns on stemming, (which is equivalent to forming a phrase by joining the words with_greyspace). But "exact phrase"~1 matches the wording in that order plus allows any one extra word to fall between the two words. For example

  4. Adposition - Wikipedia

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    The resulting phrase, formed by the adposition together with its complement, is called an adpositional phrase or prepositional phrase (PP) (or for specificity, a postpositional or circumpositional phrase). An adposition establishes a grammatical relationship that links its

  5. Specificity - Wikipedia

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    Being specific (disambiguation) Specificity (statistics), the proportion of negatives in a binary classification test which are correctly identified; Sensitivity and specificity, in relation to medical diagnostics; Specificity (linguistics), whether a noun phrase has a particular referent as opposed to referring to any member of a class

  6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Words combine to form phrases. A phrase typically serves the same function as a word from some particular word class. [3] For example, my very good friend Peter is a phrase that can be used in a sentence as if it were a noun, and is therefore called a noun phrase.

  7. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Climax – an arrangement of phrases or topics in increasing order, as with good, better, best. Colon – a rhetorical figure consisting of a clause that is grammatically, but not logically, complete. Colloquialism – a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.

  8. English relative words - Wikipedia

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    The English relative words are words in English used to mark a clause, noun phrase or preposition phrase as relative. The central relative words in English include who , whom , whose , which , why , and while , as shown in the following examples, each of which has the relative clause in bold:

  9. Semantic similarity - Wikipedia

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    Based on text analyses, semantic relatedness between units of language (e.g., words, sentences) can also be estimated using statistical means such as a vector space model to correlate words and textual contexts from a suitable text corpus. The evaluation of the proposed semantic similarity / relatedness measures are evaluated through two main ways.