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  2. Wikipedia:List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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    Some acronyms are formed by contraction; these are covered at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations. Some trademarks (e.g. Nabisco) and titles of published works (e.g. “Ain't That a Shame”) consist of or contain contractions; these are covered at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles, respectively.

  3. Contraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term ...

  4. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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    When the movement rule applies, it moves the auxiliary to the beginning of the sentence. [ 5 ] An alternative analysis does not acknowledge the binary division of the clause into subject NP and predicate VP, but rather it places the finite verb as the root of the entire sentence and views the subject as switching to the other side of the finite ...

  5. File:Standing sexual intercourse.webm - Wikipedia

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    English: This video is an example of a man and woman having penile-vaginal intercourse in the standing position, a relatively normal example of sexual intercourse. It begins with the insertion of a man's erect penis into a woman's vagina at 0:07, followed by pelvic thrusts, becoming faster, initially to stimulate the vagina as it continues to lengthen and become lubricated.

  6. Colloquialism - Wikipedia

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    Colloquialism is characterized by the usage of figurative language, contractions, filler words, interjections, and other informalities such as slang. In contrast to formal and professional communications , colloquial speech does not adhere to grammar and syntax rules and thus may be considered inappropriate and impolite in situations and ...

  7. File:Complete Male Orgasm Process.ogv - Wikipedia

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    The video begins with the subject's genitals in a non-aroused flaccid state (0:00). As arousal progresses(0:30), the subject's penis becomes erect, the scrotum tightens and the testicles elevate. At the peak of arousal (0:57), orgasm occurs and semen is ejaculated from the penis in a series of rhythmic contractions.

  8. Errors in early word use - Wikipedia

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    Once the child learned the '-ed' suffix rule that commonly forms the past tense; however, the child applied the rule to a verb whose correct grammatical form is irregular. The same applies to the tooths example, but the language rule is the addition of the suffix '-s' to form the plural noun. [5]

  9. Boggle - Wikipedia

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    Despite the game's popularity in North America, no version of Boggle offering a 5×5 grid was marketed outside Europe for an extended period until 2011, when Winning Moves Games USA revived the Big Boggle name for a new version. Their variant features a two-letter die with popular letter combinations such as Qu, Th and In.