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  2. Impersonal passive voice - Wikipedia

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    The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero. [ 1]: 77. The impersonal passive deletes the subject of an intransitive verb. In place of the verb's subject, the construction instead may include a syntactic placeholder, also called a dummy.

  3. Intrapersonal communication - Wikipedia

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    Intrapersonal communication is communication with oneself. [ 2][ 3] It takes place within a person. Larry Barker and Gordon Wiseman define it as "the creating, functioning, and evaluating of symbolic processes which operate primarily within oneself". [ 4][ 5][ 6] Its most typical forms are self-talk and inner dialogue.

  4. Impersonal verb - Wikipedia

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    Impersonal verb. In linguistics, an impersonal verb is one that has no determinate subject. For example, in the sentence " It rains ", rain is an impersonal verb and the pronoun it corresponds to an exophoric referrent. In many languages the verb takes a third person singular inflection and often appears with an expletive subject.

  5. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    At the extreme, glosses may not be abbreviated at all but simply written in small caps, e.g. COMPLEMENTIZER, NONTHEMEor DOWNRIVERrather than COMP, NTH, DR.[5] Such long, obvious abbreviationse.g. in [6]have been omitted from the list below, but are always possible. A morpheme will sometimes be used as its own gloss.

  6. Debits and credits - Wikipedia

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    e. Debits and credits in double-entry bookkeeping are entries made in account ledgers to record changes in value resulting from business transactions. A debit entry in an account represents a transfer of value to that account, and a credit entry represents a transfer from the account. [ 1][ 2] Each transaction transfers value from credited ...

  7. One (pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    Look up one, one's, or oneself in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. One is an English language, gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly, "a person". For purposes of verb agreement it is a third-person singular pronoun, though it sometimes appears with first- or second-person reference. It is sometimes called an impersonal pronoun.

  8. Defective verb - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a defective verb is a verb that either lacks a conjugated form or entails incomplete conjugation, and thus cannot be conjugated for certain grammatical tenses, aspects, persons, genders, or moods that the majority of verbs or a "normal" or regular verb in a particular language can be conjugated for [citation needed].

  9. Imprest system - Wikipedia

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    e. The imprest system is a form of financial accounting. The most common is petty cash. [ 1] The basic characteristic of an imprest system is that a fixed amount is reserved, which after a certain period or when circumstances require because money was spent, will be replenished. This replenishment will come from another account, for example ...