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  2. American and British English grammatical differences

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    In British English (BrE), collective nouns can take either singular (formal agreement) or plural (notional agreement) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

  3. Plantation (settlement or colony) - Wikipedia

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    A typical example of a colonial plantation was Providence Plantations, the first permanent European settlement in Rhode Island. [20] [21] Providence Plantations was established along the Providence River by Puritan minister Roger Williams and a small band of followers, who were fleeing religious persecution in Massachusetts Bay. [22]

  4. List of Jim Crow law examples by state - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of examples of Jim Crow laws, which were state, territorial, and local laws in the United States enacted between 1877 and 1965. Jim Crow laws existed throughout the United States and originated from the Black Codes that were passed from 1865 to 1866 and from before the American Civil War.

  5. List of non-international armed conflicts - Wikipedia

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    The Latin term bellum civile, meaning in English, civil war, was used to describe wars within a single community beginning around 60 A.D.The term is an alternative title for the work sometimes called Pharsalia by Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) about the Roman civil wars that began in the last third of the second century BC. [2]

  6. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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    The ligatures æ and œ were introduced when the sounds became monophthongs, and later applied to words not of Greek origin, in both Latin (for example, cœli) and French (for example, œuvre). In English, which has adopted words from all three languages, it is now usual to replace Æ/æ with Ae/ae and Œ/œ with Oe/oe .

  7. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The types of local commercial exchange in which they participated independently were well integrated with the trade networks between colonial merchants throughout the Atlantic region, especially markets in dairy and produce commodities. For example, local women merchants were important suppliers of foodstuffs to transatlantic shipping concerns ...

  8. Interrogative word - Wikipedia

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    An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how.They are sometimes called wh-words, because in English most of them start with wh-(compare Five Ws).

  9. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    Example: Abdul is happy. Jeanne is a person. I am she. Subject + Verb (transitive) + Indirect Object + Direct Object Example: She made me a pie. This clause pattern is a derivative of S+V+O, transforming the object of a preposition into an indirect object of the verb, as the example sentence in transformational grammar is actually "She made a ...