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2. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language.This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts.. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to ...

3. Linguistics of Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia

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   —Edward Marcotte on the significance of Chomsky's linguistic theory The basis of Noam Chomsky's linguistic theory lies in biolinguistics, the linguistic school that holds that the principles underpinning the structure of language are biologically preset in the human mind and hence genetically inherited. He argues that all humans share the same underlying linguistic structure, irrespective of ...

4. American and British English grammatical differences

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   The adverb well may be used in colloquial BrE only with the meaning "very" to modify adjectives. For example, "The film was well good." In both British and American English, a person can make a decision; however, only in British English is the common variant take a decision also an option in a formal, serious, or official context.

5. Affirmation and negation - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics and grammar, affirmation ( abbreviated AFF) and negation ( NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances. An affirmative (positive) form is used to express the validity or truth of a basic assertion, while a negative form expresses its falsity.

6. Preterite - Wikipedia

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   Preterite. The preterite or preterit ( / ˈprɛtərɪt / PRET-ər-it; abbreviated PRET or PRT) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past; in some languages, such as Spanish, French, and English, it is equivalent to the simple past tense. In general, it combines the perfective ...

7. Pluperfect - Wikipedia

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   Pluperfect. The pluperfect (shortening of plusquamperfect ), usually called past perfect in English, is a type of verb form, generally treated as a grammatical tense in certain languages, relating to an action that occurred prior to an aforementioned time in the past. Examples in English are: "we had arrived"; "they had written".

8. List of languages by type of grammatical genders - Wikipedia

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   Many Australian languages have a system of gender superclassing in which membership in one gender can mean membership in another. Worrorra: Masculine, feminine, terrestrial, celestial, and collective. Halegannada: Originally had 9 gender pronouns but only 3 exist in present-day Kannada. Zande: Masculine, feminine, animate, and inanimate.

9. And/or - Wikipedia

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   And/or. And/or is an English grammatical conjunction used to indicate that one or more (or even all) of the cases it connects may occur. It is used as an inclusive or (as in logic and mathematics), because saying "or" in spoken language (or writing "or") might be inclusive or exclusive . The construction has been used in official, legal and ...