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  2. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    (The first sign "e" is rubbed off; only a space-(depression) locates it.)-(high resolution expandible photo) In Akkadian cuneiform, on a 12-paragraph clay tablet contemporary with the Amarna letters (which span roughly 20 years circa 1350 BC), two striking examples of the superlative extend the common grammatical use. The first is the numeral ...

  3. List of superlatives - Wikipedia

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    An example of a purely subjective list is any ranking the Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T.) at anything, from inventors and generals to Presidents and athletes. Similar subjective lists include such topics as "Best and Worst Dressed", "Most Beautiful Women of Hollywood" and " Sexiest Man Alive ", named by People magazine annually since 1985.

  4. Double superlative - Wikipedia

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    The presence of more than one superlative marker is widespread across varieties of English around the world and is also found in other languages. [2] Historically, this construction dates back to Old English. Shakespeare provides numerous examples of double superlatives in his works. [3]

  5. Elative (gradation) - Wikipedia

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    In Semitic linguistics, the elative (Arabic: اِسْمُ تَفْضِيل ismu tafḍīl, literally meaning "noun of preference") is a stage of gradation that can be used to express comparatives or superlatives. The Arabic elative has a special inflection similar to that of colour and defect adjectives but differs in the details.

  6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Spoken and written language. Deakin University Press. Huddleston, Rodney D. (1976). An introduction to English transformational syntax. Longman. Huddleston, Rodney D. (2009). The Sentence in Written English: A Syntactic Study Based on an Analysis of Scientific Texts. Cambridge University Press. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-521-11395-3. Jespersen, Otto ...

  7. High School for Writing and Communication Arts - Wikipedia

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    Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts is a public high school located in the New York City borough of The Bronx. The school is collocated with five other high schools on the Evander Childs Educational Campus .

  8. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    The six factors of an effective verbal communication. To each one corresponds a communication function (not displayed in this picture). [1] Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. [2] Each of the functions has an associated factor.

  9. Creative writing - Wikipedia

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    Creative Writing programs are typically available to writers from the high school level all the way through graduate school/university and adult education. Traditionally these programs are associated with the English departments in the respective schools, but this notion has been challenged in recent times as more creative writing programs have ...