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2. People Who Were Rarely Complimented as Children Often ... - AOL

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   A compliment can brighten someone's day at any age—a "great job" from Dad after a T-ball game (win or lose) and a "nice work" from a boss following a work presentation can lift a person's spirits.

3. Appeal to flattery - Wikipedia

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   Appeal to flattery [1] is a fallacy in which a person uses flattery, excessive compliments, in an attempt to appeal to their audience's vanity to win support for their side. [2] It is also known as apple polishing , wheel greasing , brown nosing , appeal to pride , appeal to vanity or argumentum ad superbiam . [ 3 ]

4. Here's Why Taylor Swift Has the Perfect Response to ... - AOL

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   However, sometimes a response to a compliment has a deeper meaning—and a longer history. ... Avoid an awkward moment by accepting the compliment and save anything you want to praise for later. 5 ...

5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

6. Compliment - Wikipedia

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   Backhanded compliment, an insult disguised as a compliment; Compliment, a formalized respectful action paid to a superior, such as saluting an officer in the armed forces; Compliments slip, a small acknowledgement note, less formal than a letter; Compliment, a typeface by Ludwig & Mayer

7. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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   An idiom is an expression that has a figurative meaning often related, but different from the literal meaning of the phrase. Example: You should keep your eye out for him. A pun is an expression intended for a humorous or rhetorical effect by exploiting different meanings of words. Example: I wondered why the ball was getting bigger. Then it ...

8. 140 Funny Compliments That Will Make Anyone's Day - AOL

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   And we've got 140 funny compliments that will definitely do the trick. A good compliment for girls or guys has incredible power to transform someone's entire day, explains Reena B. Patel , a ...

9. Double negative - Wikipedia

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   Robert Lowth stated in his grammar textbook A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762) that "two negatives in English destroy one another, or are equivalent to an affirmative". [19] Grammarians have assumed that Latin was the model for Lowth and other early grammarians in prescribing against negative concord, as Latin does not feature it.