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  2. Transition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A transition or linking word is a word or phrase that shows the relationship between paragraphs or sections of a text or speech. [1] Transitions provide greater cohesion by making it more explicit or signaling how ideas relate to one another. [1] Transitions are, in fact, "bridges" that "carry a reader from section to section". [1]

  3. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    set and sit. When used as a transitive verb, to set means "to place" or "to adjust to a value", whereas to sit means "to be seated". Standard: Set the pot upon the stove. Standard: Set the temperature-control to 100 °C. Non-standard: Set down over there. Standard: Sit on the chair. shirk and shrink.

  4. Consecration in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The word consecration literally means "association with the sacred". Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different groups. The origin of the word comes from the Latin stem consecrat, which means dedicated, devoted, and sacred. [1] A synonym for consecration is sanctification; its antonym is ...

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a fruit flavoured dessert set with gelatin (US: Jell-O (trademark)) a type of condiment, e.g. mint jelly a clear or translucent preserve made from the liquid of fruits boiled in sugar and set with pectin, specifically without pieces of fruit (e.g. 'crab apple jelly') (occasionally) fruit preserve with fruit pieces (UK: Jam) Jersey

  6. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A major sentence is a regular sentence; it has a subject and a predicate, e.g. "I have a ball." In this sentence, one can change the persons, e.g. "We have a ball." However, a minor sentence is an irregular type of sentence that does not contain a main clause, e.g. "Mary!", "Precisely so.", "Next Tuesday evening after it gets dark."

  7. Sentence word - Wikipedia

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    The visible section or "overt" is the syntax that still remains in a sentence word. [15] Within sentence word syntax there are 6 different clause-types: Declarative (making a declaration), exclamative (making an exclamation), vocative (relating to a noun), imperative (a command), locative (relating to a place), and interrogative (asking a ...

  8. Intrapersonal communication - Wikipedia

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    Intensive thinking to oneself is a typical form of intrapersonal communication, as exemplified by Rodin's sculpture The Thinker. [1] Intrapersonal communication (also known as autocommunication or inner speech) is communication with oneself or self-to-self communication. Examples are thinking to oneself "I will do better next time" after having ...

  9. One (pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    One must help oneself. Predicative complement: One need only be oneself. Dependent determiner: Being with one's friends is a joy. Independent determiner: (no known examples) Such sentences as one's is broken; I sat on one's; I broke one's; etc. are not found. Adjunct: One must do it oneself. Modifier: (no known examples)