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  2. Word family - Wikipedia

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    A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made with suffixes and prefixes [1] plus its cognates, i.e. all words that have a common etymological origin, some of which even native speakers don't recognize as being related (e.g. "wrought (iron)" and "work (ed)"). [2] In the English language, inflectional ...

  3. -ing - Wikipedia

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    t. e. -ing is a suffix used to make one of the inflected forms of English verbs. This verb form is used as a present participle, as a gerund, and sometimes as an independent noun or adjective. The suffix is also found in certain words like morning and ceiling, and in names such as Browning.

  4. Gerund - Wikipedia

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    Gerund. In linguistics, a gerund (/ ˈdʒɛrənd, - ʌnd / [1] abbreviated ger) is any of various nonfinite verb forms in various languages; most often, but not exclusively, it is one that functions as a noun. The name is derived from Late Latin gerundium, meaning "which is to be carried out".

  5. English language - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain.

  6. Ng (name) - Wikipedia

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    Ng (name) Ng (pronounced [ŋ̍]; English approximation often / əŋ / əng or / ɪŋ / ing or / ɛŋ / eng) is both a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳 / 吴 (Mandarin Wú) and 伍 (Mandarin Wǔ) and also a common Hokkien transcription of the surname 黃 / 黄 (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂ɡ, Mandarin Huáng).

  7. ING Group - Wikipedia

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    ing.com. The ING Group (Dutch: ING Groep) is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, wholesale banking, private banking, asset management, and insurance services.

  8. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.

  9. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1]