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2. 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 ...

3. Wikipedia:List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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   you’dn’t’ve. you would not have / you wouldn’t have. you’ll. you shall / you will. you’re. you are. you’ve. you have. ^ Ain’t is used colloquially by some speakers as a substitute for a number of contractions, but is considered incorrect by others.

4. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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   The central English modal auxiliary verbs are can (with could ), may (with might ), shall (with should ), will (with would ), and must. A few other verbs are usually also classed as modals: ought, and (in certain uses) dare, and need. Use ( /jus/, rhyming with "loose") is sometimes classed so as well.

5. Poetic contraction - Wikipedia

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   Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope, these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [ 1] In languages like French, elision removes the end ...

6. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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   The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...

7. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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   Menial work is boring but it's mean (-ial) to complain. Their, There and They're; Theirs is not mine even though 'I' is in it. There is where we'll be. They're is a contraction of 'they are.' Stationary and stationery; Stationery contains er and so does paper; stationary (not moving) contains ar and so does car [24] A for "at rest", e for ...

8. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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   List of commonly misused English words. This is a list of English words that are thought to be commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and professional grammarians defining the norms of Standard English. It is possible that some of the meanings marked non-standard may pass ...

9. Ancient Greek nouns - Wikipedia

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   In Ancient Greek, all nouns are classified according to grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and are used in a number (singular, dual, or plural ). According to their function in a sentence, their form changes to one of the five cases ( nominative, vocative, accusative, genitive, or dative ). The set of forms that a noun will take ...