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  2. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

  3. Category:Grammar books - Wikipedia

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    English grammar books (14 P) L. Latin grammar books (4 P) N. ... Pages in category "Grammar books" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.

  4. Grammar book - Wikipedia

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    A grammar book is a book or treatise describing the grammar of one or more languages. In linguistics , such a book is itself frequently referred to as a grammar . Etymology

  5. Morphosyntactic alignment - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, morphosyntactic alignment is the grammatical relationship between arguments—specifically, between the two arguments (in English, subject and object) of transitive verbs like the dog chased the cat, and the single argument of intransitive verbs like the cat ran away.

  6. Active and passive transformation - Wikipedia

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    In the active transformation (left), a point P is transformed to point P ′ by rotating clockwise by angle θ about the origin of a fixed coordinate system. In the passive transformation (right), point P stays fixed, while the coordinate system rotates counterclockwise by an angle θ about its origin.

  7. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    The meaning was essentially the same as the general idea today: a simple word preceding a noun expressing a relation between it and another word. [9] William Bullokar wrote the earliest grammar of English, published in 1586. It includes a chapter on prepositions. His definition follows:

  8. Breaking Down the Biggest Differences Between ‘A Good ... - AOL

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    Pip’s dog Barnie shifted from a golden retriever to a white English sheep dog on the show, and the nicknames Pip's stepfather calls her were changed from the book's "Pickle" and "Pipsicle" to ...

  9. Abscissa and ordinate - Wikipedia

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    More technically, the abscissa of a point is the signed measure of its projection on the primary axis. Its absolute value is the distance between the projection and the origin of the axis, and its sign is given by the location on the projection relative to the origin (before: negative; after: positive). Similarly, the ordinate of a point is the ...