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  2. American and British English grammatical differences

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    The past participle gotten is rarely used in modern BrE, which generally uses got except when fixed in old expressions such as ill-gotten gains and in the minority of dialects that retain the older form. The American dictionary Merriam-Webster, however, lists "gotten" as a standard past participle of "get."

  3. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  4. Grammatical tense - Wikipedia

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    The "future tense" of perfective verbs is formed in the same way as the present tense of imperfective verbs. However, in South Slavic languages , there may be a greater variety of forms – Bulgarian , for example, has present, past (both "imperfect" and "aorist") and "future tenses", for both perfective and imperfective verbs, as well as ...

  5. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    verb he/she exits ésca noun bait esse: èsse noun the letter S ésse pron. they (f.) foro: fòro noun forum, court fóro noun a hole fosse: fòsse noun pits fósse verb were (imperfect subj.) indotto: indòtto adjective ignorant indótto ppl. induced legge: lègge verb he/she reads légge noun law mento: mènto verb I lie ménto noun chin meta ...

  6. Scottish Gaelic grammar - Wikipedia

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    Tense and aspect are marked in Gaelic in a number of ways. Present tense is formed by use of the verb tha and the verbal noun (or participle) form of the main verb. The construction, unlike Irish Gaelic, is neutral to aspect. Apart from this, tense and aspect marking are very similar in the two languages. Tha mi a' bruidhinn.

  7. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English word order has moved from the Germanic verb-second (V2) word order to being almost exclusively subject–verb–object (SVO). The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the center of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it. In most sentences, English marks ...

  8. Grammatical conjugation - Wikipedia

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    This means that any regular Latin verb can be conjugated in any person, number, tense, mood, and voice by knowing which of the four conjugation groups it belongs to, and its principal parts. A verb that does not follow all of the standard conjugation patterns of the language is said to be an irregular verb.

  9. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United ...

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    colloquial past tense and past participle form of "sneak" (US standard and UK: sneaked) soccer used in the UK but the sport is mainly known as "football" (or fully as association football ); historically most common among the middle and upper classes in the UK (i.e. outside the game's traditional core support base); more common in Ireland to ...