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In a contentious situation, such as a court case, a political debate or a public relations crisis, it is a tactic used to weaken the force of an adverse point. [6] By introducing the point first and being open about it or rebutting it, the force of the opposition's argument is diminished – their thunder is stolen.
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
The noun peeve, meaning an annoyance, is believed to have originated in the United States early in the twentieth century, derived by back-formation from the adjective peevish, meaning "ornery or ill-tempered", which dates from the late 14th-century.
As the mote is to trouble the mind's eye ("Mind's eye," though it did not originate as a phrase in this play, was popularized by Shakespeare's use of it. [1]) Act I, scene 2: ... all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. Frailty, thy name is woman! Act I, scene 3: ...the primrose path... Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
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For vigorous cardio, your heart rate should fall between 80 to 90 percent of your MHR, according to the AHA. Using the earlier example of a 35-year-old, this translates to a target heart rate of ...
A sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a sentence. The term "sentence diagram" is used more when teaching written language, where sentences are diagrammed. The model shows the relations between words and the nature of sentence structure and can be used as a tool to help recognize which potential ...