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2. List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; ... move to sidebar hide. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: Contraction (grammar)#English;

3. 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 ...

4. Poetic contraction - Wikipedia

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   Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope , these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [ 1 ]

5. Wikipedia:List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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   Some acronyms are formed by contraction; these are covered at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations. Some trademarks (e.g. Nabisco) and titles of published works (e.g. “Ain't That a Shame”) consist of or contain contractions; these are covered at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles, respectively.

6. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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   Perceived violations of correct English usage elicit visceral reactions in many people. For example, respondents to a 1986 BBC poll were asked to submit "the three points of grammatical usage they most disliked". Participants stated that their noted points "'made their blood boil', 'gave a pain to their ear', 'made them shudder', and 'appalled ...

7. Colloquialism - Wikipedia

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   Colloquialism is characterized by the usage of figurative language, contractions, filler words, interjections, and other informalities such as slang. In contrast to formal and professional communications , colloquial speech does not adhere to grammar and syntax rules and thus may be considered inappropriate and impolite in situations and ...

8. 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 ...

9. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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   The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...