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  2. Description - Wikipedia

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    Author Peter Selgin refers to methods, including action, dialogue, thoughts, summary, scenes, and description. [4] Description is the mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story. Together with dialogue, narration, exposition, and summarization, it is one of the most widely recognized of the fiction-writing modes.

  3. Definite description - Wikipedia

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    In formal semantics and philosophy of language, a definite description is a denoting phrase in the form of "the X" where X is a noun-phrase or a singular common noun.The definite description is proper if X applies to a unique individual or object.

  4. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    Many usage forms are commonly perceived as nonstandard or errors despite being widely accepted or endorsed by authoritative descriptions. [2] Perceived violations of correct English usage elicit visceral reactions in many people. For example, respondents to a 1986 BBC poll were asked to submit "the three points of grammatical usage they most ...

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section - Wikipedia

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    Do not include non-English equivalents in the lead sentence just to show etymology. Non-English names should be moved to a footnote or elsewhere in the article if they would otherwise clutter the first sentence. [O] Separate languages should be divided by semicolons; romanizations of non-Latin scripts, by commas. Do not boldface non-English ...

  6. Today’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram and Answers for Sunday ...

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    For every 3 non-theme words you find, you earn a hint. Hints show the letters of a theme word. If there is already an active hint on the board, a hint will show that word’s letter order.

  7. Wikipedia:How to write a plot summary - Wikipedia

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    As explained in Wikipedia:Plot-only description of fictional works, an encyclopedia article about a work of fiction frequently includes a concise summary of the plot. The description should be thorough enough for the reader to get a sense of what happens and to fully understand the impact of the work and the context of the commentary about it.

  8. Today's Wordle Hint, Answer for #1271 on Wednesday, December ...

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    Today's Wordle Answer for #1271 on Wednesday, December 11, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, is PLUMB. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.

  9. Linguistic description - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic description is often contrasted with linguistic prescription, [8] which is found especially in education and in publishing. [9] [10]As English-linguist Larry Andrews describes it, descriptive grammar is the linguistic approach which studies what a language is like, as opposed to prescriptive, which declares what a language should be like.