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  2. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...

  3. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    Commonly-used coordinating conjunctions in English: FANBOYS [30] [31] F or, A nd, N or, B ut, O r, Y et, S o The verbs in French that use the auxiliary verb être in the compound past (sometimes called " verbs of motion ") can be memorized using the phrase " Dr .

  4. Fan (person) - Wikipedia

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    Fans at a recital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A fan or fanatic, sometimes also termed an aficionado, stan or enthusiast, is a person who exhibits strong interest or admiration for something or somebody, such as a celebrity, a sport, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie, a video game or an entertainer.

  5. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    For example, after is a preposition in "he left after the fight" but a conjunction in "he left after they fought". In general, a conjunction is an invariant (non-inflecting) grammatical particle that stands between conjuncts. A conjunction may be placed at the beginning of a sentence, [1] but some superstition about the practice persists. [2]

  6. File:Example.pdf - Wikipedia

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    English: Example for PDF with 3 pages created from Ghostscript examples. ... Example.pdf; Page:Example.pdf/1; ... Version of PDF format: 1.5

  7. Fanboy (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Fanboy or fanboys may also refer to: Fanboys, a 2009 American comedy film; FANBOYS, a grammar mnemonic for the coordinating conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so) Fan Boy, a character from the X-Statix comic book series; Fanboy, a character from Freakazoid! Fanboy, a character from Fanboy & Chum Chum

  8. Dummy pronoun - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the phrase "It is obvious that the violence will continue", the term 'it' is a dummy pronoun, not referring to any agent. Unlike a regular pronoun of English, it cannot be replaced by any noun phrase. [2] The term 'dummy pronoun' refers to the function of a word in a particular sentence, not a property of individual words.

  9. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").