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  2. Double negative - Wikipedia

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    A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence. This is typically used to convey a different shade of meaning from a strictly positive sentence ("You're not unattractive" vs "You're attractive").

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.

  4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    In elliptical sentences (see below), inversion takes place after so (meaning "also") as well as after the negative neither: so do I, neither does she. Inversion can also be used to form conditional clauses, beginning with should, were (subjunctive), or had, in the following ways: should I win the race (equivalent to if I win the race);

  5. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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    APA Style is a “down” style, meaning that words are lowercase unless there is specific guidance to capitalize them such as words beginning a sentence; proper nouns and trade names; job titles and positions; diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms; titles of works and headings within works; titles of tests and measures; nouns followed by numerals or letters; names of ...

  6. English terms with diacritical marks - Wikipedia

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    In some cases, the diacritic is not borrowed from any foreign language but is purely of English origin. The second of two vowels in a hiatus can be marked with a diaeresis (or "tréma") – as in words such as coöperative, daïs and reëlect – but its use has become less common, sometimes being replaced by the use of a hyphen. [9]

  7. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2010 April 2 ...

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    Hyphen#Compound modifiers and Compound modifier#Hyphenation of elements suggest that it should be, but the main article was moved in 2008 from All-female band to All female band, with the reason: "non needed hyphen, bad grammar". -- Black Falcon 06:14, 2 April 2010 (UTC) Non-needed move, bad grammarian.

  8. Syllabification - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] There are also a large number of exceptions, which further complicates matters. [citation needed] Some rules of thumb can be found in the Major Keary's "On Hyphenation – Anarchy of Pedantry." [3] Among the algorithmic approaches to hyphenation, the one implemented in the TeX typesetting system is widely used.

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Organisms

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    This need not be done in a taxobox, which handles this automatically. Do not apply another stylization such as SMALL-CAPS. When one is provided, an author's name should be linked if there is an article to link to, and should not be abbreviated in absence of a link. Link directly to a notable taxonomist's Wikipedia article, at first occurrence.