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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Layout

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    Very short sections and subsections clutter an article with headings and inhibit the flow of the prose. Short paragraphs and single sentences generally do not warrant their own subheadings. Headings follow a six-level hierarchy, starting at 1 and ending at 6. The level of the heading is defined by the number of equals signs on each side of the ...

  3. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

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    The adjective colorless can be understood as dull, uninteresting, or lacking in color, and so when it combines with the adjective green, this is nonsensical: an object cannot simultaneously lack color and have the color of green. In the phrase colorless green ideas the abstract noun idea is described as being colorless and green. However, due ...

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    The above guidance about sentence case, redundancy, images, and questions also applies to headers of tables (and of table columns and rows). However, table headings can incorporate citations and may begin with, or be, numbers. Unlike page headings, table headers do not automatically generate link anchors.

  5. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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    The declarative sentence is the most common kind of sentence, and can be considered the default form: when a language forms a question or a command, it will be a modification of the declarative. A declarative states an idea (either objectively or subjectively on the part of the speaker; and may be either true or false) for the purpose of ...

  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. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Colors used in templates such as navboxes and infoboxes, and in tables, should not make reading difficult, including for colorblind or otherwise visually impaired readers. Colors that are useful for identification and are appropriate, representative, and accessible may be used with discretion and common sense. In general, text color should not ...

  8. English conditional sentences - Wikipedia

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    Conditional sentences can take numerous forms. The consequent can precede the "if"-clause and the word "if" itself may be omitted or replaced with a different complementizer. The consequent can be a declarative, an interrogative, or an imperative. Special tense morphology can be used to form a counterfactual conditional. Some linguists have ...

  9. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    For example, run can serve as either a verb or a noun (these are regarded as two different lexemes). [3] Lexemes may be inflected to express different grammatical categories. The lexeme run has the forms runs, ran, runny, runner, and running. [3] Words in one class can sometimes be derived from those in another. This has the potential to give ...