Grammatical action here resides in the verb form chhu, expressing a locative state of being. |
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Grammatical structures, such as the lack of inversion in indirect questions, have the flavor of contact with an immigrant language. |
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Grammatical number is a morphological category characterized by the expression of quantity through inflection or agreement. |
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Grammatical person typically defines a language's set of personal pronouns. |
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They were noted in the First Grammatical Treatise, and otherwise might have remained unknown. |
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Grammatical markers directly added to the word perform the same function as prepositions in English. |
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Grammatical number may be thought of as the indication of semantic number through grammar. |
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Grammatical cases have largely fallen out of use and are now mostly limited to pronouns and a large number of set phrases. |
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The speller was originally titled The First Part of the Grammatical Institute of the English Language. |
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Grammatical features and word pronunciations stemming from AAVE are preserved. |
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Webster thought that Americans should learn from American books, so he began writing the three volume compendium A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. |
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Grammatical number is expressed by morphological or syntactic means. |
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The meaning of individual words is linked to the overall grammatical form of the sentence. |
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She analyzes transcripts of interviews with political figures and examines the patterns of grammatical function words. |
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After that, the same editor or another editor should proofread the manuscript and correct typos, grammatical errors and misspelled words. |
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The second applicant frequently did not speak in grammatical sentences and appeared to contradict herself on several occasions. |
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In English, conjunctions, determiners, interjections, particles, and pronouns are grammatical words. |
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Secondly, the language is riddled with grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and inappropriate expressions. |
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It makes a grammatical sentence that correctly expresses the intended meaning. |
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We often shorten long letters, clarify confusing statements or correct grammatical errors. |
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It follows therefore that we would expect that these sentences are grammatical under the indicated interpretation. |
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Languages also vary with respect to the grammatical functions a logophoric pronoun can perform. |
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Hiragana is a cursive script used for writing grammatical elements and some native words, and is the main medium for young children's books. |
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Here are a few such strings, with rough paraphrases so that you can see that they have to be grammatical. |
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Notional concord stands in contrast to grammatical concord and means agreement by meaning rather than grammar, where the two are in conflict. |
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If we're going to play the grammatical pedant, then let's be careful to get it right. |
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Identification takes place by noticing subtle differences between grammatical and ungrammatical utterances. |
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The reliable finding is that participants give consistently higher liking ratings to novel grammatical strings than novel ungrammatical strings. |
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But there would appear to be an infinite number of both grammatical and ungrammatical sentences. |
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They use more words, make fewer errors, use longer sentences and more complex grammatical structures. |
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Cases of grammatical coreference that do not respect the sentence boundaries are highly marked. |
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Pidginization can entail loss of all bound morphology, many free grammatical morphemes, and even a large part of the vocabulary. |
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In real natural languages, looking at a larger quantity of data generally makes it clearer what the grammatical principles are. |
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Their attempts to get around these logical points generally result in an orgy of neologism and grammatical originality that gives me eye-ache. |
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This, I believe, is the only grammatical solecism Esther perpetrates in her long narrative. |
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The grammatical analysis of both codes was based on passive constructions, mode, nominalization, lexical choice, and moderators. |
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Swahili nouns are divided into classes according to the grammatical prefixes they take. |
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The great thing about this little language is that it has a wonderfully simple grammatical system. |
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In many grammatical theories, the head of a phrase is defined as that constituent which determines the syntactic category of the phrase. |
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As the verbs form the base of these holophrastic words, they play a most important part in the grammatical structure of the language. |
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Modern English has also lost its system of classifying nouns into three grammatical genders, as still occurs in German. |
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But yesterday, red-faced officials admitted whole swathes were lifted word for word grammatical slips and all from a student thesis. |
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Yet he couldn't pardon her vulgarity, and corrected the grammatical errors she made while she egged him on in bed. |
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To try to describe the story is a bit like parsing the grammatical structure of a joke. |
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Here's another case where it seems that a common syntactic pattern is a grammatical confusion. |
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The following map, for example, shows several isoglosses for different grammatical features of Anishinaabemowin. |
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The questions required knowledge of some words, but also of an irregular verb form and some grammatical terminology. |
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They follow the same grammatical rules and contain many similar words, yet so many of us still struggle. |
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His sentence made no grammatical sense, but I wasn't exactly in a position to point this out. |
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A small departure from idiomatic standard English, and a use of tense that would be grammatical in some languages. |
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It is an idiomatic language with a complex grammatical system that is considered rich in terms of warmth and expressiveness. |
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Who says you can't put an English degree to good use other than explaining our crazy grammatical rules to students in Vietnam? |
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The extent to which this grammatical form suggests a pluperfect is disputed among Hebrew grammarians. |
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The ability to speak a language, with all its grammatical complexities, is an innate part of our humanity. |
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If an aspiring writer can't help but become fixated on a grammatical error in a love letter, is this a curse? |
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Numerous grammatical items can only be understood if the context is taken into account. |
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Children, however, do learn their native tongues long before they memorize grammatical rules. |
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Please accept my apology for any grammatical errors in advance since English is not my first language. |
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It is a striking fact, too, that all known human languages have in common a good deal of grammatical structure. |
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Please forgive all the horrible grammatical errors in this piece, since I had to correct it myself. |
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But the problem stems not only from the constructs of English, but also the influence of Latin grammatical structures. |
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Nevertheless, the notion was well recognized in older grammatical theories, in school grammars of Latin, for example. |
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Your child's growing grammatical skills will help him to construct quality sentences, then build paragraphs and essays. |
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An affected individual, after a stroke, tumour or wound to the area, loses the ability to construct grammatical sentences. |
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Moreover, the shift in grammatical mood from subjunctive to indicative underscores how plausible this vision is. |
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Johnson gave little attention to collocation, idiom, and grammatical information, although he provided a brief grammar at the front. |
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However, differences in dialect consist primarily of slight differences in accent or pronunciation and minor grammatical usages. |
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So in fact the accusative in the cartoon is not grammatical in Standard English as normally used. |
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The point is that word parts are bonding into forms according to the grammatical rules of English word formation. |
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We produce the effect of counterpoint by juxtaposing lineal periods with grammatical periods. |
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The structure of Old English was more like Latin in that words had various inflectional endings to indicate their grammatical function. |
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Unlike Russian, however, modern Macedonian does not change the endings of nouns according to their grammatical case. |
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I didn't know anything about English grammatical rules, because I certainly have no recollection of studying any such. |
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Most of the limited Kriol morphology is associated with the verb and there are five prepositions that indicate grammatical relations. |
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This is a locative noun, which is a grammatical category used when creating names for places in Algonquian. |
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Sentences in which the grammatical role of a noun phrase is the same in the main clause and the relative clause seem to be easier to process. |
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Why do I think these apparently extra complementizers are a mistake, rather than a non-standard grammatical pattern? |
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Written language generally uses more complex grammatical constructions than spoken language does. |
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Crucially, while her written poems rhymed, her BSL translations did not, because BSL differs from English in grammatical structure. |
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I am conducting a questionnaire survey whose goal is to seek out differences in grammatical behaviour within pairs of antonymous property words. |
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An error of appropriacy may have more negative results than grammatical errors. |
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But it wasn't a stupid grammatical error by some time-pushed hack late for a liquid lunch with a Masonic police commissioner. |
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At our school, students are given a chance to correct grammatical mistakes and errors. |
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The writing system was logographic, where one sign or sign-group was used for each term or concept without adding grammatical elements. |
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Language teachers search for grammatical patterns and examine the ways in which the language has changed. |
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Students should not expect this seminar to instill a rigid sense of rule-bound correctness, whether grammatical or formal. |
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I haven't proof read it or anything, so forgive me if there are grammatical errors and stuff. |
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Messages tend to be short, even telegraphic, and may omit grammatical bridges. |
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It has its own grammatical structure different from that of either English or Maori. |
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Urdu uses an Arabic script, but Persian vocabulary and Hindi grammatical structure. |
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On those occasions when they did so, they saw what seemed to be a barbarous mass of material lacking all grammatical order. |
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The observation that stimulated my thinking on this topic was of a humble grammatical phenomenon. |
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We acquire tacit knowledge, we learn to speak without memorizing grammatical rules. |
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Ethnic Liberian languages usually contain two or three distinct tones, based on pitch, which indicate semantic or grammatical differences. |
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In codifying the grammatical rules of Sanskrit as he did, Panini was instrumental in closing the language. |
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The sentence is grammatical but it's not a proposition and so is not something from which a contradiction can be derived. |
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These lapses from strict grammatical correctness, it is assumed, are intended satire on her part. |
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I decided today that I need to be more tolerant when reading documents with grammatical errors and misspellings. |
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Thanks to the editor, you're spared from my weekly misspellings and grammatical errors. |
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Are you aware that you sometimes have spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in your posts? |
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Were I to learn faster, I would now know better than to correct people's grammatical misunderstandings. |
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American Sign Language, which has its own grammatical system, cannot be translated word for word because of idioms. |
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They, like the lower urban class, tend to speak Turkish with regional accents and grammatical peculiarities. |
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It is said that a child can already use all the grammatical patterns of its mother tongue by the time he or she is five years old. |
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But a simpler explanation is that the wayward adverb in the passage is blowback from Chief Justice Roberts's habit of grammatical niggling. |
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The grammatical gender of nouns has been completely eliminated from English. |
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Reformers rejected the teaching of modern languages through grammatical paradigms, specimen sentences, and word lists. |
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I want to begin by apologizing for all of the grammatical errors, slapdash reasoning, and sloppy writing in my recent posts. |
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On the other hand, the grammatical errors and similarities to the Gospel of Thomas are still a problem. |
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The clash of English with the grammatical form of the Irish language gave it new color and shape. |
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What the diatribe lacked in grammatical proficiency, it made up for in drama. |
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The indicative verb form differs from the others in varying for tense and aspect, and in showing grammatical concord with the subject in the present tense. |
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And yet he was convinced that nothing had hampered him and his schoolfellows so much as the grammatical perfectionism drummed into them by teachers. |
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Make note of the incoherent speech, grammatical errors, cutesy nicknames with reporters, and crankiness from the president and obsequiousness from the press. |
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With him scientific scholarship really began, and his work covered the wide range of grammatical, etymological, orthographical, literary, and textual criticism. |
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You trust the translation accords with grammatical convention. |
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The current issue is also filled with dozens of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. |
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A number of verbs belonging to each category are analyzed in terms of the thematic roles and grammatical relations undertaken by the noun phrases required by these verbs. |
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Can a sentence be ungrammatical in isolation, but grammatical in context? |
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The fact that some prescriptive rules are valuable does not mean that every grammatical injunction should be obeyed. |
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We now have to follow world accounting standards and world other standards, so why do we not just follow world tax law grammatical standards and settle for the semicolon? |
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Hat tip to Liz Ditz for pointing out my grammatical error in the title. |
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A second case of grammatical negative transfer is the use of reduplication when using nouns, which is a common practice in Chinese, but indicates redundancy in English. |
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Check through your text and correct all grammatical and spelling errors. |
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Let us start by explaining all of the seven Croatian grammatical cases. |
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Although the noun and the past participle elf-schot are identical in form, their grammatical functions are different, and they must be considered separately. |
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What emerges is a picture of a culture that relied on the grammatical, rhetorical, and prosodic tools that can be found in surviving early medieval miscellanies. |
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The it in suffice it to say is an impersonal or indefinite pronoun, one that functions as a grammatical placeholder without supplying much real meaning. |
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The questioner is shouted down, accused of being a grammatical pedant. |
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Usually, anacolutha are close enough to a grammatical construction, or can be traced back to a familiar pattern, to be understood without problem by the receptor. |
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I wonder why this bit of ignorant grammatical pontificating never caught on, while the equally ill-founded prescription against splitting infinitives did? |
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There's no logical or grammatical reason to forbid splitting infinitives, and sometimes it's even obligatory, as Arnold Zwicky and Geoff Nunberg pointed out here last spring. |
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This article will challenge the normal grammatical conception of deponency and will go on to examine the problems intrinsic to it lexicographically. |
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The result therefore, was exactly and inerrantly what God wanted it to be, grammatical blunders and Hebraistic Greek sentences and weird vocabulary and all. |
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But imperatives, interrogatives and declaratives are grammatical forms, while demanding action or requesting or giving information are semantic roles. |
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Some languages have a grammatical structure in which the meaning or conjugation of a word changes depending on who's using it and who the audience is. |
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A number of analyses can be made of students' progress in the development of both lexical diversity and sophistication, and grammatical accuracy and appropriacy. |
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It's a dialect of English, with its own structure and grammatical rules. |
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Such an approach has often been taken to be a break with the past, but is rooted in more than two millennia of logical and grammatical system-building. |
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I like that sentence and I don't care what grammatical pedants think. |
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The many lexical and grammatical cognates in English and Dutch probably give the Dutch learners of English a considerable head-start in the learning process. |
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Almost every sentence that came out of my mouth had grammatical mistakes. |
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In addition to that, it may be used in practical applications, such as interactive grammatical lookup and intelligent dictionaries, spell checkers, etc. |
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But the fact is that every decent guide to grammar and usage on the market agrees that the split infinitive is grammatical and often preferably to all other alternatives. |
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Soon the young language was not only standing on its own two grammatical feet, it also possessed the largest vocabulary of any language on the planet. |
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As it happens, I don't particularly warm to the guy either, but at least he seems to know what he is talking about and can utter a grammatical sentence. |
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How private worry about hyphens or apostrophes will so often turn a person into a punctuational avenging marauder, a ruthless grammatical Genghis Khan. |
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In unpunctuated texts, the grammatical structure of sentences in classical writing is inferred from context. |
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The grammatical cases nominative and accusative are used for subject resp. direct object in many languages, including Latin. |
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One cannot consistently judge the grammaticality of utterances without knowing what grammatical types their constituent morphemes represent. |
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Danish verbs are morphologically simple, marking very few grammatical categories. |
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In most sentences English only marks grammatical relations through word order. |
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Because of the strict SVO syntax, the topic of a sentence generally has to be the grammatical subject of the sentence. |
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Old English nouns had grammatical gender, a feature absent in modern English, which uses only natural gender. |
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Words include an objective semantic element and markers specifying the grammatical use of the word. |
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Welsh nouns belong to one of two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine, but they are not inflected for case. |
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Gender in nouns was grammatical, as opposed to the natural gender that prevails in modern English. |
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During the Middle English period many Old English grammatical features were simplified or disappeared. |
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Cornish nouns belong to one of two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine, but are not inflected for case. |
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In the latter, error correction is present, as is the study of grammatical rules isolated from natural language. |
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In 1872, grammatical and orthographic rules first appeared in the Duden Handbook. |
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Alcuin wrote many theological and dogmatic treatises, as well as a few grammatical works and a number of poems. |
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Latin is a highly inflected language, with many grammatical forms for various words. |
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Articles specify grammatical definiteness of the noun, in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope. |
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Most Romance languages have two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine. |
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Dominant in the last group was Persian, which was also the source of some grammatical forms. |
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Tamil employs agglutinative grammar, where suffixes are used to mark noun class, number, and case, verb tense and other grammatical categories. |
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Adjectives and pronouns were additionally declined in three grammatical genders. |
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In his Lettres sur La Nouvelle Heloise, written under a pseudonym, Voltaire offered criticism highlighting grammatical mistakes in the book. |
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They share a set of grammatical features that set them apart from all other Slavic languages. |
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Sometimes it is just not possible to determine whether some morphological and grammatical differences are real variants or nonvariants. |
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Where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme, the common unit of prose is purely grammatical, such as a sentence or paragraph. |
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The Bornholmian dialect has maintained to this day many archaic features, such as a distinction between three grammatical genders. |
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Insular Danish traditional dialects also conserved three grammatical genders. |
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Standard Dutch uses three genders to differentiate between natural gender and three when discerning grammatical gender. |
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Therefore, he did not include grammatical categories which were extinct in all dialects. |
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Where other languages may use grammatical cases, Swedish uses numerous prepositions, similar to those found in English. |
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Mandan has different grammatical forms that depend on gender of the addressee. |
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For nouns regarding the living, their grammatical genders often correspond to that which they refer to. |
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A tendency to drop grammatical number in collective nouns, stronger in British English than in North American English, exists. |
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The length of the vowel is a grammatical abstraction, and there may be more phonologically distinctive lengths. |
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It is not uncommon for short grammatical words to consist of only vowels, such as a and I in English. |
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Another definition sees language as a formal system of signs governed by grammatical rules of combination to communicate meaning. |
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Subsequent grammatical traditions developed in all of the ancient cultures that adopted writing. |
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Often, semantic concepts are embedded in the morphology or syntax of the language in the form of grammatical categories. |
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The grammatical rules for how to produce new sentences from words that are already known is called syntax. |
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This frequently happens when words or morphemes erode and the grammatical system is unconsciously rearranged to compensate for the lost element. |
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The language comes to contain mostly the grammatical and phonological categories that exist in both languages. |
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For a single word, the grammatical stem could display different consonants depending on its grammatical case or its tense. |
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It does not take into account various idiomatic and grammatical shifts that occurred over the period. |
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These lexical, grammatical, and morphological similarities can be outlined in the table below. |
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Its various dialects contain a number of lexical and a few grammatical features which distinguish them from the standard language. |
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One year later, he published a card game, Grammatica Figurata, to make the grammatical rules of Donatus', Ars Minor, more appealing to children. |
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This work was an attempt to enliven Donatus' Ars Minor by printing up illustrated card sets for each grammatical rule. |
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The Nahuatl verb is quite complex and inflects for many grammatical categories. |
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Some languages use relatively restrictive word order, often relying on the order of constituents to convey important grammatical information. |
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Auxiliary verbs typically help express grammatical tense, aspect, mood, and voice. |
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In the case of English, verbs are often identified as auxiliaries based on their grammatical behavior, as described below. |
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Aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how an action, event, or state, denoted by a verb, extends over time. |
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Sometimes, English has a lexical distinction where other languages may use the distinction in grammatical aspect. |
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There is a distinction between grammatical aspect, as described here, and lexical aspect. |
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The distinctions made as part of lexical aspect are different from those of grammatical aspect. |
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Finnish and Estonian, among others, have a grammatical aspect contrast of telicity between telic and atelic. |
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Aspect is unusual in ASL in that transitive verbs derived for aspect lose their grammatical transitivity. |
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Realis moods are a category of grammatical moods that indicate that something is actually the case or actually not the case. |
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Some languages have distinct grammatical forms that indicate that the event described by a specific verb is an irrealis verb. |
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Different languages use various grammatical forms to indicate passive voice. |
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In the field of linguistics, the term passive is applied to a wide range of grammatical structures. |
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Thus, an interrogative sentence is a sentence whose grammatical form shows that it is a question. |
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Phonology, on the other hand, is concerned with the abstract, grammatical characterization of systems of sounds or signs. |
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A fully explicit grammar that exhaustively describes the grammatical constructions of a language is called a descriptive grammar. |
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As the rules become established and developed, the prescriptive concept of grammatical correctness can arise. |
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Such a sentence eases the burden on the Lexicon as it requires no grammatical analysis whatsoever. |
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A mixed language is a language that combines the grammatical elements of one language and the lexical items of another language. |
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The first model involves the use of one language for heavy substitutions of entire grammatical paradigms or morphology of another language. |
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While the language's grammatical base is from K'iche', its lexicon is supplied by Kaqchikel. |
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The grammatical gender of a given noun does not necessarily correspond to its natural gender, even for nouns referring to people. |
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Declension is the process or result of altering nouns to the correct grammatical cases. |
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In German, grammatical case is largely preserved in the articles and adjectives, but nouns have lost many of their original endings. |
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There are no other dual or trial grammatical forms in the Mortlockese language. |
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Synthetic languages typically distinguish grammatical number by inflection. |
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In many languages, such as English, number is obligatorily expressed in every grammatical context. |
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That is, it is indicated by certain grammatical elements, such as through affixes or number words. |
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Languages that express quantity only by lexical means lack a grammatical category of number. |
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Auxiliary languages often have fairly simple systems of grammatical number. |
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The grammatical patterns of Northern England English are similar to those of British English in general. |
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New Caledonian French is influenced by Kanak languages in its vocabulary and grammatical structure. |
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There are grammatical constructions and words that one uses in speech that one generally avoids in written compositions. |
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Esperanto words are mostly derived by stringing together roots, grammatical endings, and at times prefixes and suffixes. |
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More recently, authors have begun focusing on grammatical cues, and even the use of certain rhetorical strategies. |
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Some languages code very little through morphology and are more dependent on syntax to encode meaning and grammatical relationships. |
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Given that different languages have different grammatical features, the actual test for which nouns are mass nouns may vary between languages. |
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An inflectional suffix is sometimes called a desinence or a grammatical suffix or ending. |
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Inflection changes the grammatical properties of a word within its syntactic category. |
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Clitics can belong to any grammatical category, although they are commonly pronouns, determiners, or adpositions. |
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The agreement based on overt grammatical categories as above is formal agreement, in contrast to notional agreement, which is based on meaning. |
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Some categories that commonly trigger grammatical agreement are noted below. |
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Agreement based on grammatical person is found mostly between verb and subject. |
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Agreement based on grammatical number can occur between verb and subject, as in the case of grammatical person discussed above. |
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In languages in which grammatical gender plays a significant role, there is often agreement in gender between a noun and its modifiers. |
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The grammatical category associated with comparison of adjectives and adverbs is degree of comparison. |
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These grammatical features are characteristic of both older Southern American English and newer Southern American English. |
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A closely related concept is that of an analytic language, which uses little or no inflection to indicate grammatical relationships. |
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The grammatical role of the object remains unaltered, and thus transitivity may also be used. |
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In other languages, finite verbs are the locus of much grammatical information. |
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It may inflect for grammatical categories such as tense, aspect and mood, like other verbs in the language. |
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In some languages, copula omission occurs within a particular grammatical context. |
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For more information about the grammatical rules for forming questions in various languages, see Interrogative. |
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Information structure has been described at length by a number of linguists as a grammatical phenomenon. |
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Some of the earliest efforts at grammatical description were based at least in part on corpora of particular religious or cultural significance. |
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In Middle English, this final schwa had some grammatical significance, although that was mostly lost by Chaucer's time. |
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Indeed, while the lexical and grammatical isoglosses follow the Appalachian Mountains, the accent boundary follows the Ohio River. |
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Bleek, and later Carl Meinhof, pursued extensive studies comparing the grammatical structures of Bantu languages. |
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Each noun belongs to a class, and each language may have several numbered classes, somewhat like grammatical gender in European languages. |
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Hansard is as close to verbatim as possible, although Hansard Editors remove repetitions and redundancies and make minor grammatical corrections. |
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These can be discussed for grammatical fit, semantic appropriacy or match to devices of simile, metaphor or sound. |
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A possibility that comes to mind is the grammatical distinction between count and mass nouns. |
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Broca's Area is usually associated with speaking words and grammatical sentences aloud. |
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Many grammatical errors in one of the chapters suggest that it was not fully edited by Burnsides and Ellsley, whose credentials are not provided. |
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Linguistic information includes segmental and suprasegmental as well as lexical, grammatical, and semantic features. |
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They then look at the four verbs in present day German, after which they trace changes in grammatical usage from Old High German to the present. |
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There are some grammatical constructions which require one or more definite articles.The definite article had evolved from a demonstrative. |
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It is written in both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets and has seven grammatical cases. |
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Throughout this range of infinitival relatives, we can identify one common characteristic of the grammatical cases. |
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Priestley's and Lowth's grammars epitomized, respectively, the two main trends of grammatical tradition, namely descriptivism and prescriptivism. |
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Here the possessor is the logical subject, while the possessed object is the grammatical subject of an equative sentence. |
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Such usage is fine in a chatty, colloquial style, even though a bit iffy by modern grammatical standards. |
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However, in Bhujel the stative verbs can be combined with grammatical imperfective aspect and it yields a durative interpretation as in. |
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Intensionally, I define as ongoing in Nuosu those clauses that are presented with a perspective from within by overt lexical or grammatical marking. |
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Originally a grammatical term for syntactical ordering from language it was translated into the arts together with its prominent decorum values of Hellenismos and Latinitas. |
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They come closest to resembling a grammatical periphrasis such as. |
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In appraisal theory, a grammatical distinction is constructed between desiderative future or intended versus experienced emotive mental processes. |
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In valency-rearrangement the valency of the verb or of the verb variants remains constant, but the relevant noun phrases bear different grammatical relations. |
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Typologically, grammatical markings of temporality are quite complicated. |
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Note also that in Selkup, interrogatives tend to use the inferential mood, but this paradigmatic asymmetry is only a preference, not a grammatical restriction. |
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But it is also profoundly invested in the recuperation of meaning at the basic level of the grammatical and lexicographical significance of the Quran. |
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Their grammatical uses include among others the marking of verbal arguments, of nonfinite verb forms in adverbial clauses and the expression of possession or purpose. |
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Unless the word absquatulation has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or grammatical use and may be ignored. |
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The inventory of grammatical cases of the Tsezic languages typically includes the Absolutive, the Ergative, the Instrumental and the first and second Genitive. |
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The speech of the middle classes in Scotland tends to conform to the grammatical norms of the written standard, particularly in situations that are regarded as formal. |
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Only a very small number of languages, of which the best known is Yoruba, have pronoun retention as their sole grammatical type of relative clause. |
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Comparatives are often used with a conjunction or other grammatical means to indicate with what the comparison is being made, as with than in English, als in German, etc. |
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This is known in Swedish as the grammatical category of Species. |
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In yet other languages, definiteness is indicated by affixes on the noun or on modifying adjectives, much like the expression of grammatical number and grammatical case. |
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Suffixes can carry grammatical information or lexical information. |
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Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. |
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In every lexical word, and in some grammatical words, one syllable is identified as having primary stress, though in monosyllables the stress is not generally marked. |
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Kabbalistic grammatical speculation was directed at recovering the original language spoken by Adam and Eve in Paradise, lost in the confusion of tongues. |
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Constructed languages like Esperanto and Interlingua are in fact often simpler due to the typical lack of irregular verbs and other grammatical quirks. |
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For example, the sentence I am not with the copula be is fully idiomatic, but I know not with a finite lexical verb, while grammatical, is archaic. |
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East Midlands English follows a series of distinct grammatical rules. |
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However, not every language has a grammatical category of number. |
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Sometimes, grammatical number will not represent the actual quantity. |
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Old English is an inflected language, and as such its nouns, pronouns, adjectives and determiners must be declined in order to serve a grammatical function. |
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This is because a speech community will not adopt a newer dominant language, and so adapt their language with grammatical material from the dominant language. |
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This definition does not include Michif, which combines French lexical items in specific contexts, but still utilizes Cree lexical and grammatical items. |
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Icelandic retains many grammatical features of other ancient Germanic languages, and resembles Old Norwegian before much of its fusional inflection was lost. |
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This kind of linguistic description contrasts with linguistic prescription, an attempt to discourage or suppress some grammatical constructions, while promoting others. |
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Passive voice is a grammatical voice common in many languages. |
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Irrealis moods are the set of grammatical moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a certain situation or action is not known to have happened. |
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