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  2. Tunnel vision (metaphor) - Wikipedia

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    Teachers integrated discussions concerning mind sets into class activities. 12% of effect sizes were significantly different from zero, indicating that students with low socioeconomic status benefitted from mindset interventions, and had significantly better academic achievement than students in control groups.

  3. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had ...

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    The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.

  4. Mind your Ps and Qs - Wikipedia

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    Mind your Ps and Qs is an English language expression meaning "mind your manners," "mind your language," "be on your best behaviour," or "watch what you're doing.". Attempts at explaining the origin of the phrase go back to the mid-19th century.

  5. Mind you - Wikipedia

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    You can also: Search for Mind you in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the Mind you article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  6. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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    An exclamative is a sentence type in English that typically expresses a feeling or emotion, but does not use one of the other structures. It often has the form as in the examples below of [WH + Complement + Subject + Verb], but can be minor sentences (i.e. without a verb) such as [WH + Complement] How wonderful!.

  7. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    In the second example, the non-restrictive relative clause who have never known your family describes you in the independent clause, You see them standing around you. A noun clause is a dependent clause that functions like a noun. A noun clause may function as the subject of a clause, a predicate nominative, an object or an appositive.

  8. Garden-path sentence - Wikipedia

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    This is another commonly cited example. [4] Like the previous sentence, the initial parse is to read the complex houses as a noun phrase, but the complex houses married does not make semantic sense (only people can marry) and the complex houses married and single makes no sense at all (after married and..., the expectation is another verb to form a compound predicate).

  9. Mind - Wikipedia

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    The mind is responsible for phenomena like perception, thought, feeling, and action.. The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills.It covers the totality of mental phenomena, including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances, and unconscious processes, which can influence an individual without ...