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  2. Clearer linking word. "Talkies" is possibly a little informal for this context, and many readers will need to hit the link to find out what it means, which is undesirable. In any case, Talkies redirects to "Sound film", which is a much easier term for readers to understand: it should be used instead, and you can drop the quotation marks, since ...

  3. Wikipedia : List of English contractions

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    finna (informal) fixing to fo’c’sle (informal) forecastle ’gainst (informal) against g’day (informal) good day gimme (informal) give me giv’n (informal) given gi’z (informal) give us (colloquial, meaning: give me) gonna (informal) going to gon’t (informal) go not (colloquial) gotta (informal) got to hadn’t: had not had’ve: had ...

  4. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Linking

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    Linking through hyperlinks is an important feature of Wikipedia. Internal links bind the project together into an interconnected whole. Interwikimedia links bind the project to sister projects such as Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikipedia in other languages, and external links bind Wikipedia to the World Wide Web.

  5. Genitive construction - Wikipedia

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    Informal German also prefers a preposition, except with proper names, e.g. der Vater von meinem Freund "My friend's father" (lit. "the father of my friend") but Johanns Vater "John's father". Mandarin Chinese uses a linking word de 的, e.g. Yuēhàn de fùqīn 约翰的父亲 "John's father", where Yuēhàn means "John" and fùqīn means

  6. Elision - Wikipedia

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    It can appear as a breve below or an underscore between the adjacent words, e.g. "por-que ̮en-ton-ces" or "por-que_en-ton-ces". A frequent informal use is the elision of d in the past participle suffix -ado, pronouncing cansado as cansao. The elision of d in -ido is considered even more informal, but both elisions common in Andalusian Spanish.

  7. List of English copulae - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-exhaustive list of copulae in the English language, i.e. words used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a subject complement). Because many of these copulative verbs may be used non-copulatively, examples are provided. Also, there can be other copulative verbs depending on the context and the meaning of the ...

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  9. Transition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A transition or linking word is a word or phrase that shows the relationship between paragraphs or sections of a text or speech. [1] Transitions provide greater cohesion by making it more explicit or signaling how ideas relate to one another. [1] Transitions are, in fact, "bridges" that "carry a reader from section to section". [1]