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  2. English determiners - Wikipedia

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    In 1933, Leonard Bloomfield introduced the term determiner used in this article, which appears to define a syntactic function performed by "limiting adjectives". [11] Our limiting adjectives fall into two sub-classes of determiners and numeratives …

  3. Pro-form - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a pro-form is a type of function word or expression (linguistics) that stands in for (expresses the same content as) another word, phrase, clause or sentence where the meaning is recoverable from the context. [1] They are used either to avoid repetitive expressions or in quantification (limiting the variables of a proposition).

  4. Adjective - Wikipedia

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    An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns. [1]

  5. Belief - Wikipedia

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    Justified true belief is a definition of knowledge that gained approval during the Enlightenment, "justified" standing in contrast to "revealed". There have been attempts to trace it back to Plato and his dialogues, more specifically in the Theaetetus, [51] and the Meno. The concept of justified true belief states that in order to know that a ...

  6. List of limits - Wikipedia

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    In general, any infinite series is the limit of its partial sums. For example, an analytic function is the limit of its Taylor series, within its radius of convergence. = =. This is known as the harmonic series. [6]

  7. Nominalization - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, nominalization or nominalisation, also known as nouning, [1] is the use of a word that is not a noun (e.g., a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase.

  8. Limit of a function - Wikipedia

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    This definition allows a limit to be defined at limit points of the domain S, if a suitable subset T which has the same limit point is chosen. Notably, the previous two-sided definition works on int ⁡ S ∪ iso ⁡ S c , {\displaystyle \operatorname {int} S\cup \operatorname {iso} S^{c},} which is a subset of the limit points of S .

  9. English possessive - Wikipedia

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    The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...