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  2. Carbon copy - Wikipedia

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    Carbon copy can be used as a transitive verb with the meaning described under e-mail below related to the CC field of an e-mail message. That is, to send the message to additional recipients beyond the primary recipient. It is common practice to abbreviate the verb form, and many forms are used, including cc and cc:.

  3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the center of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it. In most sentences, English marks grammatical relations only through word order. The subject constituent precedes the verb and the object constituent follows it.

  4. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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    When the movement rule applies, it moves the auxiliary to the beginning of the sentence. [5] An alternative analysis does not acknowledge the binary division of the clause into subject NP and predicate VP, but rather it places the finite verb as the root of the entire sentence and views the subject as switching to the other side of the finite verb.

  5. List of medical abbreviations: C - Wikipedia

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    CC cc: cubic centimeter (use ml instead—see the list of abbreviations used in prescriptions) chief complaint cardiac catheter carbon copy closing capacity: CCA: clear cell adenocarcinoma: CCB: calcium channel blocker: CCCU: critical coronary care unit: CCE C/C/E: clubbing, cyanosis, and edema (general signs of cardiovascular disease) CCG ...

  6. Closed captioning - Wikipedia

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    The term closed indicates that the captions are not visible until activated by the viewer, usually via the remote control or menu option. On the other hand, the terms open, burned-in, baked on, hard-coded, or simply hard indicate that the captions are visible to all viewers as they are embedded in the video.

  7. Subject–verb–object word order - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages may be classified according to the dominant sequence of these elements in unmarked sentences (i.e., sentences in which an unusual word order is not used for emphasis).

  8. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - Wikipedia

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    In an article titled "Current Notes" in the February 9, 1885, edition, the phrase is mentioned as a good practice sentence for writing students: "A favorite copy set by writing teachers for their pupils is the following, because it contains every letter of the alphabet: 'A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. ' " [1] Dozens of other ...

  9. Commonly misspelled English words - Wikipedia

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    The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists [4] [10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 [3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word.