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2. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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   Example: Abdul is happy. Jeanne is a person. I am she. Subject + Verb (transitive) + Indirect Object + Direct Object Example: She made me a pie. This clause pattern is a derivative of S+V+O, transforming the object of a preposition into an indirect object of the verb, as the example sentence in transformational grammar is actually "She made a ...

3. English determiners - Wikipedia

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   For example, *I live in small house is ungrammatical because small house is a singular countable NP lacking a determinative. The adjective small is a modifier, not a determinative. In contrast, if the adjective is replaced or preceded by a possessive NP ( I live in my house ) or a determiner ( I live in that house ), then it becomes grammatical ...

4. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

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   to/into the house Erzya | Finnish [6] | Quechua | Tsez | Turkish: Sublative case: the surface or below: on(to) the house/under the house Hungarian | Tsez | Finnish [6] Superlative case: the top: on(to) the house/on top of the house Northeast Caucasian languages: Bezhta | Hinuq | Tsez: Terminative case: marking the end of a movement or time: as ...

5. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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   Basque has the following cases, with examples given in the indefinite, definite singular, definite plural, and definite close plural of the word etxe, "house", "home": absolutive ( etxe, etxe a , etxe ak , etxe ok : "house, the / a house, (the / some) houses, these houses"),

6. Genitive case - Wikipedia

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   For example, in the phrase bean an tí (woman of the house), tí is the genitive case of teach, meaning "house". Another example is barr an chnoic , "top of the hill", where cnoc means "hill", but is changed to chnoic , which also incorporates lenition .

7. Locative case - Wikipedia

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   For example, I have a house in Estonian would be Mul on maja in which mul is in the adessive case, on is the third singular of to be (is), and maja is in nominative, not accusative. So maja is the subject, on is the verb and mul is the indirect object. This could be translated to English as At me is a house or A house is at me or There is a ...

8. List of style guides - Wikipedia

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   A classic grammar style guide is The Elements of Style. Together, these two books are referenced more than any other general style book for US third-person writing used across most professions. Together, these two books are referenced more than any other general style book for US third-person writing used across most professions.

9. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...