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2. Agreement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   The pronouns neither and either are singular although they seem to be referring to two things. Words after each, every, and many a are treated as singular. [5] - Every dog is a lion at home. - Many a penny makes a pound. - Each man and each woman has a vote. Exceptions: When the subject is followed by each, the verb agrees to the original subject.

3. English determiners - Wikipedia

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   [1]: 387 Because they signal a single selection, disjunctive determiners select singular nouns when functioning as determinatives in noun phrases (e.g., either side). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language does not recognize this category and instead label either an "assertive determiner" and neither a "negative determiner." [18]: 257

4. List of English determiners - Wikipedia

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   either; enough; every; everybody; everyone; everything; everywhere; few; fewer; fewest; last (also adjective) least; less (also adverb and preposition) little (also adjective) many; many a; more (also adverb) most (also adverb) much; neither; next (also adjective) no (also interjection) no one; nobody; none; nothing; nowhere; once; one (also ...

5. 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.

6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   It is not usually possible to tell from the form of a word which class it belongs to; inflectional endings and derivational suffixes are unique and specific to. On the other hand, most words belong to more than one word class. For example, run can serve as either a verb or a noun (these are regarded as two different lexemes). [3]

7. Subject (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   The stereotypical subject immediately precedes the finite verb in declarative sentences and represents an agent or a theme. The subject is often a multi-word constituent and should be distinguished from parts of speech, which, roughly, classify words within constituents. In the example sentences below, the subjects are indicated in boldface.

8. English coordinators - Wikipedia

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   Coordinate structures are created when two or more elements are connected by a coordinator. These structures can involve words, phrases, or clauses. For example, "apples and oranges" is a coordinate structure consisting of two noun phrases, while "She likes apples and he likes oranges" is a coordinate structure consisting of two clauses.

9. Distributive pronoun - Wikipedia

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   A common distributive idiom in Biblical Hebrew used an ordinary word for man, 'ish (איש ‎). Brown Driver Briggs only provides four representative examples—Gn 9:5; 10:5; 40:5; Ex 12:3. [2] Of the many other examples of the idiom in the Hebrew Bible, the best known is a common phrase used to describe everyone returning to their own homes ...