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  2. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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    There are certain sentence patterns in English in which subject–verb inversion takes place where the verb is not restricted to an auxiliary verb. Here the subject may invert with certain main verbs, e.g. After the pleasure comes the pain, or with a chain of verbs, e.g. In the box will be a bottle.

  3. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Verb: 2: 2: Primer 21 to: Preposition: 3: 7, 9: Pre-primer 17 of: Preposition: 4: 4: Grade 1 12 and: ... say last for that 5 day get long on I 6 thing make great with ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    Attempts to say the entire word have taken two [1] to three and a half hours. [ 2 ] Technical; not in dictionary; whether this should actually be considered a word is disputed

  6. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    verb to use improperly address: AmE and BrE / ə ˈ d r ɛ s / verb to direct speech, a letter or a consignment (to) AmE / ˈ æ d r ɛ s / BrE and AmE / ə ˈ d r ɛ s / noun a descriptor of location advocate / ˈ æ d v ə k eɪ t / verb to argue for someone else / ˈ æ d v ə k ɪ t / noun a person who speaks in support of something affect ...

  7. Part of speech - Wikipedia

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    Adjectives make the meaning of another word (noun) more precise. Verb (states action or being) a word denoting an action (walk), occurrence (happen), or state of being (be). Without a verb, a group of words cannot be a clause or sentence. Adverb (describes, limits) a modifier of an adjective, verb, or another adverb (very, quite). Adverbs make ...

  8. Verbum dicendi - Wikipedia

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    A complement of a verbum dicendi can be direct or indirect speech. Direct speech is a single unit of linguistic object that is '"mentioned" rather than used.' [1] In contrast, indirect speech is a proposition whose parts make semantic and syntactic contribution to the whole sentence just like parts of the matrix clause (i.e. the main clause/sentence, as opposed to an embedded clause).

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be ...