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2. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   They wouldn't let us in, nor would they explain what we had done wrong. Another example of clauses or sentences linked is: I like reading books, and I also enjoy watching movies. There are also correlative conjunctions, where as well as the basic conjunction, an additional element appears before the first of the items being linked. [33]

3. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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   A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...

4. Either/or - Wikipedia

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   For some other uses of the English words either and neither: Correlative conjunction; English determiners; Indefinite pronoun; Wiktionary entries for either and neither; Or (disambiguation) Nor (disambiguation) All pages with titles beginning with Either; All pages with titles beginning with Neither; Ether Or

5. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

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   Colorless green ideas sleep furiously was composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but semantically nonsensical. The sentence was originally used in his 1955 thesis The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory and in his 1956 paper "Three Models for the ...

6. Neither - Wikipedia

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   Neither is an English pronoun, adverb, and determiner signifying the absence of a choice in an either/or situation. Neither may also refer to: Neither (opera) , the only opera by Morton Feldman

7. Article (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   For example, Sentence 1 uses the definite article and thus, expresses a request for a particular book. In contrast, Sentence 2 uses an indefinite article and thus, conveys that the speaker would be satisfied with any book. Give me the book. Give me a book. The definite article can also be used in English to indicate a specific class among other ...