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  2. Compound (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Compounding occurs when two or more words or signs are joined to make a longer word or sign. Consequently, a compound is a unit composed of more than one stem, forming words or signs. If the joining of the words or signs is orthographically represented with a hyphen, the result is a hyphenated compound (e.g., must-have, hunter-gatherer).

  3. Compound modifier - Wikipedia

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    Words that function as compound adjectives may modify a noun or a noun phrase.Take the English examples heavy metal detector and heavy-metal detector.The former example contains only the bare adjective heavy to describe a device that is properly written as metal detector; the latter example contains the phrase heavy-metal, which is a compound noun that is ordinarily rendered as heavy metal ...

  4. English compound - Wikipedia

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    There are compound verbs with two verbs (e.g. make do). These too can take idiomatic prepositions (e.g. get rid of). There are also idiomatic combinations of verb and adjective (e.g. come true, run amok) and verb and adverb (make sure), verb and fixed noun (e.g. go ape); and these, too, may have fixed idiomatic prepositions (e.g. take place on).

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Glossaries

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    A definition is next given on its own line using the {} template, and follows either the term or a previous definition. Do not make individual terms in a template-structured glossary into headings. Doing so will produce garbled output. The terms will be linkable without being headings.

  6. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    [optional in place of hyphen] separator for clitics, e.g., West Greenlandic palasi=lu niuirtur=lu (priest=and shopkeeper=and) "both the priest and the shopkeeper" [2] [20]. when a morph is rendered by more than one gloss, the glosses are separated by periods, e.g., French aux chevaux (to. ART.PL horse. PL) "to the horses"

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    Rather than describing an individual using the subjective and vague term controversial, instead give readers information about relevant controversies. Make sure, as well, that reliable sources establish the existence of a controversy and that the term is not used to grant a fringe viewpoint undue weight.

  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    (Some people are left-handed, but that does not make right-handed people "better" than left-handed people.) There should be a space after a closing bracket, except where a punctuation mark follows (though a spaced dash would still be spaced after a closing bracket) and in unusual cases similar to those listed for opening brackets.

  9. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    The assumption (unstated Claim 2) is that People are mortal). In Aristotelian rhetoric, an enthymeme is known as a "rhetorical syllogism": it mirrors the form of a syllogism, but it is based on opinion rather than fact. Epanalepsis – a figure of speech in which the same word or phrase appears both at the beginning and at the end of a clause.