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  2. English determiners - Wikipedia

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    The key difference between adjectives and determiners in English is that adjectives cannot function as determinatives. The determinative function is an element in NPs that is obligatory in most singular countable NPs and typically occurs before any modifiers (see § Functions ).

  3. Spanish determiners - Wikipedia

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    The use of uno/una/unos/unas before adjectives can be analyzed as a pronoun, followed by an adjective, rather than as an indefinite article, followed by a nominalized adjective: Uno bueno = "A good [one]": "Hay uno bueno en esa calle, en la Plaza Corbetta." = "There's a good one on that street, on Corbetta Square."

  4. Adjective Check List - Wikipedia

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    The Adjective Check List (ACL) is a psychological assessment containing 300 adjectives used to identify common psychological traits. [1] The ACL was constructed by Harrison G. Gough and Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. with the goal to assess psychological traits of an individual. [ 2 ]

  5. Crosslinguistic influence - Wikipedia

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    One option of language B overlaps with an option in language A. [9] For example, French allows adjectives before and after a noun, but English only allows adjectives before the noun. There is an overlap in the correct placement of adjectives between these two languages, and there will be transfer, especially with postnominal adjectives in French.

  6. Linguistics wars - Wikipedia

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    This posited also, that nominalization transformations should happen in the lexicon not in the deep structure thereby limiting the power of transformations. [1] The words refuse and refusal would belong to the same category REFUSE in the generative semantics framework, but in Remarks Chomsky argued for the limitation of transformations and the ...

  7. Adjunct (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Adjuncts that modify adjectives and adverbs are occasionally called adadjectival and adadverbial. the discussion before the game – before the game is an adnominal adjunct. very happy – very is an "adadjectival" adjunct. too loudly – too is an "adadverbial" adjunct. Adjuncts are always constituents. Each of the adjuncts in the examples ...

  8. Anagram - Wikipedia

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    Many anagram servers (for example, The Words Oracle) can control the search results, by excluding or including certain words, limiting the number or length of words in each anagram, or limiting the number of results. Anagram solvers are often banned from online anagram games.

  9. Passé composé - Wikipedia

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    The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).