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  2. Style (form of address) - Wikipedia

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    The second-person (singular and plural) possessive adjective your is used as a form of address (that is, when speaking directly to the person[s] entitled to the style[s]); the third-person possessive adjectives his/her' (singular) and their (plural) are used as forms of reference (that is, when speaking about the person[s] entitled to the style ...

  3. Spanish determiners - Wikipedia

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    Strictly speaking, the presence of the first determiner means that the possessive must be interpreted as an adjective rather than a determiner. Note however that the long adjectival form ( mío , tuyo , suyo , etc.), which is identical to the corresponding possessive pronoun , is not used in this construction, which is rather uncommon.

  4. Spanish personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    Even in modern times, the use of vosotros may still be found in oratory, legal documents, or other highly formal or archaic contexts. [11] Spanish studies scholar Daniel Eisenberg has noted that because the "use of archaic Spanish can give an impression of authority and wisdom", Latin American Spanish speakers will sometimes use vosotros to ...

  5. Spanish grammar - Wikipedia

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    Spanish generally uses adjectives in a similar way to English and most other Indo-European languages. However, there are three key differences between English and Spanish adjectives. In Spanish, adjectives usually go after the noun they modify. The exception is when the writer/speaker is being slightly emphatic, or even poetic, about a ...

  6. Voseo - Wikipedia

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    The standard formal way to address a person one was not on familiar terms with was to address such a person as vuestra merced ("your grace", originally abbreviated as v.m.) in the singular and vuestras mercedes in the plural. Because of the literal meaning of these forms, they were accompanied by the corresponding third-person verb forms.

  7. Spanish adjectives - Wikipedia

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    These adjectives almost always inflect only for number. -s is once again the plural marker, and if the lemma ends in a consonant, the adjective takes -es in the plural. Thus: caliente ("hot") → caliente, caliente, calientes, calientes; formal ("formal") → formal, formal, formales, formales; verde ("green") → verde, verde, verdes, verdes

  8. English possessive - Wikipedia

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    The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...

  9. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Some derived adjectives are capitalized by convention, and some are not (biblical, but Quranic); if unsure, check a dictionary. Honorifics for deities , including proper names and titles, start with a capital letter ( God , Allah , the Lord , the Supreme Being , the Great Spirit , the Horned One , Bhagavan ).