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2. American and British English grammatical differences

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   However, in British grammar, it is also possible for should and would to have the same meaning, with a distinction only in terms of formality (should simply being more formal than would). For most Americans, this nuance has been lost, with would being used in both contexts; [ 22 ] for example, I should like to leave is no longer a formal way to ...

3. Nominal group (functional grammar) - Wikipedia

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   In systemic functional grammar (SFG), a nominal group is a group of words that represents or describes an entity, for example The nice old English police inspector who was sitting at the table with Mr Morse. Grammatically, the wording "The nice old English police inspector who was sitting at the table with Mr Morse" can be understood as a ...

4. 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 ...

5. English usage controversies - Wikipedia

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   In the English language, there are grammatical constructions that many native speakers use unquestioningly yet certain writers call incorrect. Differences of usage or opinion may stem from differences between formal and informal speech and other matters of register, differences among dialects (whether regional, class-based, generational, or other), difference between the social norms of spoken ...

6. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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   Declension is the process or result of altering nouns to the correct grammatical cases. Languages with rich nominal inflection (using grammatical cases for many purposes) typically have a number of identifiable declension classes, or groups of nouns with a similar pattern of case inflection or declension.

7. Voice (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   Another difference between middle voice and the other two grammatical voices is that there are middle marked verbs for which no corresponding active verb form exists. [9] In some cases, the middle voice is any grammatical option where the subject of a material process cannot be categorized as either an actor (someone doing something) or a goal ...

8. Article (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   The Basque distal form (with infix -a-, etymologically a suffixed and phonetically reduced form of the distal demonstrative har-/hai-) functions as the default definite article, whereas the proximal form (with infix -o-, derived from the proximal demonstrative hau-/hon-) is marked and indicates some kind of (spatial or otherwise) close ...

9. Constituent (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   This test is widely used to probe the structure of strings containing verbs (because do is a verb). [8] The test is limited in its applicability, though, precisely because it is only applicable to strings containing verbs: Drunks could put off the customers. (a) Drunks could do so. (do so = put off the customers) (b) Drunks do so.