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  2. Neither - Wikipedia

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    Neither is an English pronoun, adverb, and determiner signifying the absence of a choice in an either/or situation. Neither may also refer to: Neither (opera) , the only opera by Morton Feldman

  3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English grammar is the set of structural rules of the ... it is increasingly used when the referent's gender is irrelevant or when the referent is neither male nor ...

  4. English coordinators - Wikipedia

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    English coordinators (also known as coordinating conjunctions) are conjunctions that connect words, phrases, or clauses with equal syntactic importance. The primary coordinators in English are and, but, or, and nor.

  5. Correlative - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, a correlative is a word that is paired with another word with which it functions to perform a single function but from which it is separated in the sentence. In English, examples of correlative pairs are both–and, either–or, neither–nor, the–the ("the more the better"), so–that ("it ate so much food that it burst"), and if ...

  6. Agreement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    This is because English grammar requires that the verb and its subject agree in person. The pronouns I and he are first and third person respectively, as are the verb forms am and is. The verb form must be selected so that it has the same person as the subject in contrast to notional agreement, which is based on meaning. [2] [3]

  7. Clusivity - Wikipedia

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    Neither Short forms are ta (incl.) and mi (excl.) Austronesian: Chechen: vai txo Neither Caucasian: Cherokee: ᎢᏂ (ini- (dual)), ᎢᏗ (idi- (plural)) ᎣᏍᏗ (osdi- (dual)), ᎣᏥ (oji- (plural)) Neither The forms given here are the active verb agreement prefixes. Free pronouns do not distinguish clusivity. Iroquoian: Cree, Plains ...

  8. Grammatical gender - Wikipedia

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    the. MASC. SG abuelo grandfather el abuelo the.MASC.SG grandfather "the grandfather" Feminine la the. FEM. SG abuela grandmother la abuela the.FEM.SG grandmother "the grandmother" Example of grammatical gender in Spanish "Grammatical" gender Number Phrase Masculine Singular el the. MASC. SG plato dish el plato the.MASC.SG dish "the dish" Plural los the. MASC. PL platos dishes los platos the ...

  9. Affirmation and negation - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics and grammar, affirmation (abbreviated AFF) and negation (NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances. An affirmative (positive) form is used to express the validity or truth of a basic assertion, while a negative form expresses its falsity.