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  2. Word wall - Wikipedia

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    Word walls can be used in classrooms ranging from pre-school through high school.Word walls are becoming commonplace in classrooms for all subject areas. High schools teachers use word walls in their respective content areas to teach spelling, vocabulary words, and mathematics symbols.

  3. Nonfinite verb - Wikipedia

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    The non-finite verbs been and examined are, except for tense, neutral across such categories and are not inflected otherwise. The subject, proposal, is a dependent of the finite verb has, which is the root (highest word) in the verb catena. The non-finite verbs lack a subject dependent. The second sentence shows the following dependency structure:

  4. Defective verb - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb that either lacks a conjugated form or entails incomplete conjugation, and thus cannot be conjugated for certain grammatical tenses, aspects, persons, genders, or moods that the majority of verbs or a "normal" or regular verb in a particular language can be conjugated for [citation needed]. That is to ...

  5. Sequence of tenses - Wikipedia

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    In Latin, the sequence of tenses rule affects dependent verbs in the subjunctive mood, mainly in indirect questions, indirect commands, and purpose clauses. [4] If the main verb is in one of the non-past tenses, the subordinate verb is usually in the present or perfect subjunctive (primary sequence); if the main verb is in one of the past tenses, the subordinate verb is usually in the ...

  6. English phrasal verbs - Wikipedia

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    Particle verbs (phrasal verbs in the strict sense) are two-word verbs composed of a simple verb and a particle extension that modifies its meaning. The particle is thus integrally collocated with the verb. In older grammars, the particle was usually analyzed as an adverb. [8] [9] a. Kids grow up so fast these days b. You shouldn't give in so ...

  7. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    The simple past or past simple, sometimes also called the preterite, consists of the bare past tense of the verb (ending in -ed for regular verbs, and formed in various ways for irregular ones, with the following spelling rules for regular verbs: verbs ending in -e add only –d to the end (e.g. live – lived, not *liveed), verbs ending in -y ...

  8. Reflexive pronoun - Wikipedia

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    Here the verb uses the second person plural indefinite ending -tok indicating that the object of the verb is unclear or non-existent. (ti) magatokat mossátok (you (pl.) are washing yourselves [informal]) Here the verb has changed from the second person plural indefinite ending to the definite ending -játok to indicate the reflexive object.

  9. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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    In the question, these two elements change places (invert). If the sentence does not have an auxiliary verb, this type of simple inversion is not possible. Instead, an auxiliary must be introduced into the sentence in order to allow inversion: [3] a. Sam enjoys the paper. – Statement with the non-auxiliary verb enjoys b. *Enjoys Sam the paper?