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To show duration: briefly, during, for a long time, minute by minute, while; To show a particular time: at six o'clock, at that time, first thing in the morning, in 1999, in the beginning of August, in those days, last Sunday, next Christmas, now, then, two months ago, when; To introduce a beginning: at first, before then, in the beginning, since
Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemes; Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else; Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms; Zeugma and Syllepsis: the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously
Pun: play on words that has two meanings. Rhetorical question: asking a question as a way of asserting something. Asking a question that already has the answer hidden in it, or asking a question not to get an answer, but to assert something (or to create a poetic effect). Satire: humoristic criticism of society.
The first two in the sequence are by far the most common; 'tertiary' appears occasionally, and higher numbers are rare except in specialized contexts ('quaternary period'). The Greek series proto- , deutero- , trito- , ... is only found in prefixes, generally scholarly and technical coinages, e.g. protagonist, deuteragonist, tritagonist ...
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The words second and last next to each other set up a contradiction in my mind because the position "second" on its own always means second from the beginning. D b f i r s 21:40, 9 October 2014 (UTC) Second to last is the usual American English expression; second to the last is much less common. Second last just sounds wrong in American English.
The second point is the store week also play a role here. So if keeping all else equal, the net new store growth rate the same, the time at which we open the stores within the quarter will play a ...
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