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  2. Objects clause - Wikipedia

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    An objects clause is a provision in a company's constitution stating the purpose and range of activities for which the company is carried on. In UK company law , until reforms enacted in the Companies Act 1989 and the Companies Act 2006 , an objects clause circumscribed the capacity , or power, of a company to act.

  3. MacGuffin - Wikipedia

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    The use of a MacGuffin as a plot device predates the name MacGuffin. The Holy Grail of Arthurian legend has been cited as an early example of a MacGuffin. The Holy Grail is the desired object that is essential to initiate and advance the plot, but the final disposition of the Grail is never revealed, suggesting that the object is not of significance in itself. [8]

  4. Exceptional case-marking - Wikipedia

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    The pronouns are marked with object case morphology, but they function semantically as the subjects of the infinitival verbs to their right, i.e., they acquire their theta roles from the verb to their right. Many ECM-verbs allow the same meaning to be expressed with a full object clause (a finite clause), e.g.: Tom believes that he is innocent.

  5. Ultra vires - Wikipedia

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    That result was commercially unpalatable. It led to companies being formed with extremely wide and generic objects clauses permitting a company to engage in all manner of commercial activities. [7] The position was changed by statute by the Companies Act 1985, which essentially abolished the doctrine concerning commercial companies.

  6. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Symploce – a figure of speech in which several successive clauses have the same first and last words. Synchysis – word order confusion within a sentence. Synecdoche – a rhetorical device where one part of an object is used to represent the whole—e.g., "There are fifty head of cattle." or "Show a leg!" (naval command to get out of bed ...

  7. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    The adverbial clause describes when and where the action of the main clause, I had only two things on my mind, took place. A relative clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase in the independent clause. In other words, the relative clause functions similar to an adjective. Let him who has been deceived complain.

  8. Grammatical relation - Wikipedia

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    A noun such as Fred or a noun phrase such as the book cannot qualify as subject and direct object, respectively, unless they appear in an environment, e.g. a clause, where they are related to each other and/or to an action or state. In this regard, the main verb in a clause is responsible for assigning grammatical relations to the clause ...

  9. Gettysburg Address - Wikipedia

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    The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...