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  2. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

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    marking a condition as a quality (a kind of shape) as a house Hungarian | Manchu: Essive-modal case: marking a condition as a quality (a way of being) as a house Hungarian: Exessive case: marking a transition from a condition: from being a house (i.e., it stops being a house) Estonian (rare) | Finnish (dialectal) Formal case: marking a ...

  3. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the problematic text. Different languages use different proofreading marks and sometimes publishers have their own in-house proofreading marks. [1]

  4. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more"). [1] English and many other languages present number categories of singular or plural. Some languages also have a dual, trial and paucal number or other arrangements.

  5. Plus and minus signs - Wikipedia

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    The same convention is also used in some computer languages. For example, subtracting −5 from 3 might be read as "positive three take away negative 5", and be shown as 3 − − 5 becomes 3 + 5 = 8, which can be read as: + 31(− 5) or even as + 3 − − 5 becomes + 3 + + 5 = + 8.

  6. Nominal (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    [The] son bonus good amat (1) [he] loves canem (2) [the] dog. ACC ferocem (3). wild. ACC fīlius bonus amat (1) canem (2) ferocem (3). {[The] son} good {[he] loves} {[the] dog.ACC} wild.ACC The good son loves the wild dog. Bantuist grammar tradition The earliest study of noun classes was conducted in 1659 on Bantu languages, and this study has to this day undergone only very minor ...

  7. X mark - Wikipedia

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    An x mark marking the spot of the wrecked Whydah Gally in Cape Cod. An X mark (also known as an ex mark or a cross mark or simply an X or ex or a cross) is used to indicate the concept of negation (for example "no, this has not been verified", "no, that is not the correct answer" or "no, I do not agree") as well as an indicator (for example, in election ballot papers or in maps as an x-marks ...

  8. You’ve Heard It From Scrooge, but What Does ‘Bah Humbug ...

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    But what does "bah humbug" mean, exactly? The fact that Scrooge seems to hate Christmas makes us ascribe the saying to someone who simply has no interest in the holiday. However, there is more to ...

  9. Double negative - Wikipedia

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    Double or multiple negatives are grammatically required in Hungarian with negative pronouns: Nincs semmim (word for word: "[doesn't-exists] [nothing-of-mine]", and translates literally as "I do not have nothing") means "I do not have anything". Negative pronouns are constructed by means of adding the prefixes se-, sem-, and sen-to interrogative ...