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2. Lindley Murray - Wikipedia

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   Lindley Murray (1745 – 16 February 1826) was an American Quaker lawyer, writer, and grammarian, best known for his English-language grammar books used in schools in England and the United States. Murray practised law in New York. As the colonies began to fight for independence with the American Revolution (1765–1783) and in the lead-up to ...

3. English Reader or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from ...

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   The English Reader: or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect; to Improve Their Language and Sentiments; and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue.

4. List of current BBC newsreaders and reporters - Wikipedia

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   Christian Fraser. BBC News, The Context, BBC Election Coverage. Ben Brown. BBC News, BBC News at One, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, BBC Weekend News, The World Today, Verified Live, BBC News Now [4] Annita McVeigh. BBC News, BBC News at One, BBC Weekend News.

5. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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   This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the ...

6. The Seafarer (poem) - Wikipedia

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   The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The poem consists of 124 lines, followed by the single word "Amen". It is recorded only at folios 81 verso – 83 recto [1] of the tenth-century [2] Exeter Book, one of the four surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry.

7. Speed reading - Wikipedia

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   Skimming is a process of speed reading that involves visually searching the sentences of a page for clues to the main idea or when reading an essay, it can mean reading the beginning and ending for summary information, then optionally the first sentence of each paragraph to quickly determine whether to seek still more detail, as determined by the questions or purpose of the reading.