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  2. Direct, indirect, and induced employment - Wikipedia

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    A direct job is employment created to fulfill the demand for a product or service. [1] An indirect job is a job that exists to produce the goods and services needed by the workers with direct jobs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Indirect employment includes the things need direct on the job as well as jobs produced because of the worker's needs (e.g., uniforms ).

  3. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. Sentence 1 is an example of a simple sentence. Sentence 2 is compound because "so" is considered a coordinating conjunction in English, and sentence 3 is complex.

  4. Grammatical relation - Wikipedia

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    The subject is the agent Marge in the first sentence and the patient The coffee table in the second sentence. The direct object is the patient the coffee table in the first sentence, and there is no direct object in the second sentence. The situation is similar with the ergative verb sunk/sink in the second pair of

  5. Grammar Lessons All Job Seekers Should Know - AOL

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  6. 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:

  7. Catenative verb - Wikipedia

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    These verbs are called "catenative" because of their ability to form chains in catenative constructions. For example: We need to go to the tennis court to help Jim to get some practice before the game. "Need" is used here as a catenative verb followed by the infinitive "to go", and "help" is a catenative verb followed by the infinitive "to get".

  8. Indeed - Wikipedia

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    Indeed operates in the UK via Indeed UK Operations Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Indeed Operations Ireland Ltd, whose ultimate holding company is Recruit Holding Co Ltd. Turnover in the UK for the year to 31 December 2019 was £41.2m. [citation needed] On October 1, 2012, Indeed became an independent operating unit of Japan-based Recruit Co ...

  9. Expletive (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    An expletive is a word or phrase inserted into a sentence that is not needed to express the basic meaning of the sentence. [1] It is regarded as semantically null or a placeholder. [ 2 ] Expletives are not insignificant or meaningless in all senses; they may be used to give emphasis or tone, to contribute to the meter in verse, or to indicate ...