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The two words remain a catena even as shifting changes their order of appearance. The following trees illustrate polywords: The component words of the polywords (in red) are continuous in the vertical dimension and are therefore catenae. They cannot, however, be construed as constituents since they do not form complete subtrees.
Agreed, although my old OED actually uses "Terra-cotta", but one word is now surely standard. Johnbod 16:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC) Terra cotta → Terracotta— Canonical spelling: one word, not two. Has been discussed on Talk:Terra cotta. — Enki H. 20:18, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a determiner, a clause, a preposition, or a sentence.Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, or level of certainty by answering questions such as how, in what way, when, where, to what extent.
One-letter words play a role in the Oulipian [155] constraint, a form of rhopalic verse in which the first line consists of a one-letter word. [156] But above all, they are the subject of a notable experiment by François Le Lionnais, dating from 1957 and published in La Littérature potentielle in 1973, of "Réduction d'un poème à une seule ...
A few languages have specific parts of speech that distinguish between two number categories: one or two, and more than two. The former category can be thought of as a single conflated singular-dual number. [257] For example, in the nouns of Kalaw Lagaw Ya: [258] [259] ùmay - "dog(s)" (one or two) ùmayl - "dogs" (plural, three or more)
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The predicate is a verb phrase that consists of more than one word. In the backyard, the dog barked and howled at the cat. This simple sentence has one independent clause which contains one subject, dog, and one predicate, barked and howled at the cat. This predicate has two verbs, known as a compound predicate: barked and howled. (This should ...
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