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  2. Raising (syntax) - Wikipedia

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    Raising predicates/verbs can be identified in part by the fact that they alternatively take a full clause dependent and can take part in it-extraposition, [3] e.g. a. Tom seems to have won the race. b. It seems that Tom won the race. – Raising-to-subject verb seem occurs with it-extraposition. a. Larry appears to be doing the work. b.

  3. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    If separating words using spaces is also permitted, the total number of known possible meanings rises to 58. [38] Czech has the syllabic consonants [r] and [l], which can stand in for vowels. A well-known example of a sentence that does not contain a vowel is StrĨ prst skrz krk, meaning "stick your finger through the neck."

  4. Exponentiation - Wikipedia

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    For example, 3 5 = 3 · 3 · 3 · 3 · 3 = 243. The base 3 appears 5 times in the multiplication, because the exponent is 5. Here, 243 is the 5th power of 3, or 3 raised to the 5th power. The word "raised" is usually omitted, and sometimes "power" as well, so 3 5 can be simply read "3 to the 5th", or "3 to the 5".

  5. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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    Three-word and four-word combinations appear when most of the child's utterances are two-word productions. In addition, children are able to form conjoined sentences, using and . [ 5 ] This suggests that there is a vocabulary spurt between the time that the child's first word appears, and when the child is able to form more than two words, and ...

  6. List of English palindromic phrases - Wikipedia

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    A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". Following is a list of palindromic phrases of two or more words in the English language , found in multiple independent collections of palindromic phrases.

  7. Double negative - Wikipedia

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    In the first example, the verb to go separates the two negatives; therefore the latter negative does not negate the already negated verb. Indeed, the word 'nowhere' is thus being used as an adverb and does not negate the argument of the sentence. An exception is when the second negative is stressed, as in I'm not doing nothing; I'm thinking.

  8. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    Words that are incompatible create the following type of entailment (where X is a given word and Y is a different word incompatible with word X): [2] sentence A is X entails sentence A is not Y [3] An example of an incompatible pair of words is cat : dog: It's a cat entails It's not a dog [4]

  9. Antiphrasis - Wikipedia

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    Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2] When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings ...