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  2. Carlotta (The Phantom of the Opera) - Wikipedia

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    Carlotta is a fictional character from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera. She is the leading soprano at the Paris Opera House who is criticised by the narrator and the Phantom for the lack of emotion in her performances. [1] In the novel, she is a minor character hailing from Spain. The first time that she is mentioned in the ...

  3. Star (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Carlotta's younger sister, who is deeply involved in organized crime. She and Andy strike up a relationship, but after he steals money from her, she tries to have him murdered, only to kill Jahil by accident. Andy later reveals her involvement to Carlotta out of guilt after accidentally shooting Ayanna while trying to forge a check in her name.

  4. History of English grammars - Wikipedia

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    In Britain, as education and literacy spread in the early eighteenth century, many grammars, such as the several editions of John Brightland's Grammar of the English Tongue and James Greenwood's Essay towards a Practical English Grammar, [12] [13] were written for "non-learned, native-speaker audiences" who did not know the rudiments of Latin ...

  5. List of Star episodes - Wikipedia

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    He subsequently learns that Arlene has informed the traffickers he double-crossed of his betrayal. Star goes back to Hunter's mansion and threatens him with a tire iron. Carlotta learns that Otis's widow was the one who murdered him and records her confession for the police. As the girls get ready for the festival, Jahil and Carlotta reconcile.

  6. The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film) - Wikipedia

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    Because of the better quality of the Eastman House print, many home video releases have opted to use it as the basis of their transfers. This version has singer Mary Fabian in the role of Carlotta. In the reedited version, Virginia Pearson, who played Carlotta in the 1925 film, is credited and referred to as "Carlotta's Mother" instead.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. History of linguistic prescription in English - Wikipedia

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    During the second half of the 20th century, the prescriptivist tradition of usage commentators started to fall under increasing criticism. Thus, works such as the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, appearing in 1993, attempt to describe usage issues of words and syntax as they are actually used by writers of note, rather than to judge them by standards derived from logic, fine ...