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  2. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    When the affirmative already uses auxiliary verbs (I am going), no other auxiliary verbs are added to negate the clause (I am not going). (Until the period of early Modern English, negation was effected without additional auxiliary verbs: I go not.) Most combinations of auxiliary verbs etc. with not have contracted forms: don't, can't, isn't, etc.

  3. E-Prime - Wikipedia

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    E-Prime (short for English-Prime or English Prime, [1] sometimes É or E′) denotes a restricted form of English in which authors avoid all forms of the verb to be.. E-Prime excludes forms such as be, being, been, present tense forms (am, is, are), past tense forms (was, were) along with their negative contractions (isn't, aren't, wasn't, weren't), and nonstandard contractions such as ain't ...

  4. I before E except after C - Wikipedia

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    Such rules are warnings against common pitfalls for the unwary. Nevertheless, selection among competing correspondences has never been, and could never be, covered by such aids to memory. The converse of the "except after c" part is Carney's spelling-to-sound rule E.16: in the sequence cei , the ei is pronounced /iː/. [29]

  5. Agreement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    ka tama-ŋɔ river-prox. in- ka this ka tama- ā -ŋɔ river-pl-prox. in- ka - ā these ka tama-ŋɔ in- ka / ka tama- ā -ŋɔ in- ka - ā river-prox. this / river-pl-prox. these In this example, what is copied is not a prefix, but rather the initial syllable of the head "river". By language Languages can have no conventional agreement whatsoever, as in Japanese or Malay ; barely any, as in ...

  6. USAID workers are being ‘escorted’ back into the office for ...

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    USAID workers, who have been largely placed on leave, are being allowed brief 15-minute windows to return to their office and collect personal belongings.The process is being conducted with strict ...

  7. African-American Vernacular English - Wikipedia

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    The general rules are: Only the forms is and are (of which the latter is often replaced by is) can be omitted; am, was, and were are not deleted. These forms cannot be omitted when they would be pronounced with stress in Standard American (whether or not the stress serves specifically to impart an emphatic sense to the verb's meaning).

  8. "Come on Down" for the Surprising Rules 'Price Is Right ... - AOL

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    The The Price Is Right Live! show rules state that if an individual is unable to play due to "physical injury, illness, infirmity or incapacity," they can designate someone to play on their behalf.

  9. Banned Prizes, ‘No Meat’ and More Unusual ‘Price Is Right’ Rules

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    The Price Is Right celebrates its historic 10,000th episode on February 26, 2025 For the past 53 seasons, lucky Price Is Right audience members have been invited to "come on down" and take a spin ...