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  2. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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    First person includes the speaker (English: I, we), second person is the person or people spoken to (English: your or you), and third person includes all that are not listed above (English: he, she, it, they). [1] It also frequently affects verbs, and sometimes nouns or possessive relationships.

  3. Grammaticality - Wikipedia

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    According to Chomsky, a speaker's grammaticality judgement is based on two factors: . A native speaker's linguistic competence, which is the knowledge that they have of their language, allows them to easily judge whether a sentence is grammatical or ungrammatical based on intuitive introspection.

  4. Dative shift - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, dative shift refers to a pattern in which the subcategorization of a verb can take on two alternating forms, the oblique dative form or the double object construction form. In the oblique dative (OD) form, the verb takes a noun phrase (NP) and a dative prepositional phrase (PP), the second of which is not a core argument .

  5. The Sense of Style - Wikipedia

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    Building upon earlier guides, such as Strunk & White's The Elements of Style and Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, it applies science to the process of writing, and explains its prescriptions by citing studies in related fields – e.g., grammatical phenomena, mental dynamics, and memory load – as well as history and criticism ...

  6. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English - Wikipedia

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    While targeting "English language students and researchers" (p. 45), an abridged version of the grammar was released in 2002, Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, together with a workbook entitled Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook, to be used by students on university and teacher-training courses.

  7. Clusivity - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Passamaquoddy, "I/we have it" is expressed Singular n-tíhin (first person prefix n-) Exclusive n-tíhin-èn (first person n-+ plural suffix -èn) Inclusive k-tíhin-èn (inclusive prefix k-+ plural -èn) In Tamil, on the other hand, the two different pronouns have the same agreement in the verb.

  8. Mignon Fogarty - Wikipedia

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    Mignon Fogarty (born 1967 [1] [2]) is a former faculty member in journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a former science writer who produces an educational podcast about English grammar and usage titled Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, which was named one of the best podcasts of 2007 by iTunes. [3]

  9. English determiners - Wikipedia

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    In the clause the dog bit the man, for example, the dog belongs to the syntactic category of noun phrase and performs the syntactic function of subject. The distinction between category and function is at the heart of a terminological issue surrounding the word determiner : various grammars have used the word to describe a category, a function ...