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usa today November 29, 2024 at 2:12 AM Note: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of solutions for their local newspaper.
Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Hints 1 Across: Raygun or Moo Deng, in 2024 — HINT: It starts with the letter "M"
[9] [7] Sentences may either be clearly acceptable or clearly unacceptable, but there are also sentences that are partially acceptable. Hence, according to Sprouse, the difference between grammaticality and acceptability is that grammatical knowledge is categorical, but acceptability is a gradient scale.
SPOILERS BELOW—do not scroll any further if you don't want the answer revealed. The New York Times Today's Wordle Answer for #1250 on Wednesday, November 20, 2024
A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. Sentence 1 is an example of a simple sentence. Sentence 2 is compound because "so" is considered a coordinating conjunction in English, and sentence 3 is complex.
These examples illustrate that stripping is flexible insofar as the remnant in the stripped clause is not limited in function; it can, for instance, be a subject as in the first sentence or an object as in the second sentence. A particularly frequent type of stripping is not-stripping (stripping in the presence of not), e.g.:
For example, my very good friend Peter is a phrase that can be used in a sentence as if it were a noun, and is therefore called a noun phrase. Similarly, adjectival phrases and adverbial phrases function as if they were adjectives or adverbs, but with other types of phrases, the terminology has different implications.
SPOILERS BELOW—do not scroll any further if you don't want the answer revealed. The New York Times Today's Wordle Answer for #1255 on Monday, November 25, 2024