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  2. Right-branching sentences in English - Wikipedia

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    The inverse would be a Left-branching sentence. The name "right-branching" comes from the English syntax of putting such modifiers to the right of the sentence. For example, the following sentence is right-branching. The dog slept on the doorstep of the house in which it lived. Note that the sentence begins with the subject, followed by a verb ...

  3. Branching (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The nature of branching is most visible with full trees. The following trees have been chosen to illustrate the extent to which a structure can be entirely left- or entirely right-branching. The following sentence is completely left-branching. The constituency-based trees are on the left, and the dependency-based trees are on the right: [7]

  4. Head (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the head of the noun phrase boiling hot water is the noun (head noun) water. Analogously, the head of a compound is the stem that determines the semantic category of that compound. For example, the head of the compound noun handbag is bag, since a handbag is a bag, not a hand.

  5. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    Various sentences using the syllables mā, má, mǎ, mà, and ma are often used to illustrate the importance of tones to foreign learners. One example: Chinese: 妈妈骑马马慢妈妈骂马; pinyin: māma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, māma mà mǎ; lit. 'Mother is riding a horse... the horse is slow... mother scolds the horse'. [36]

  6. Center embedding - Wikipedia

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    For example: The man who heard that the dog had been killed on the radio ran away. One can tell if a sentence is center embedded or edge embedded depending on where the brackets are located in the sentence. [Joe believes [Mary thinks [John is handsome.]]] The cat [that the dog [that the man hit] chased] meowed.

  7. A teen feud on Instagram, a fight outside Whataburger, and a ...

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    A baby without a father. A mother who carries her son in an urn. Two teens behind bars. Nearly two years after the shooting outside a Whataburger, the families involved are still reeling.

  8. Aphelia (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    The sentence structure is typically both short in length and lacks "poetic and rhetorical adornment." [3] Parataxis and asyndeton are also expected within the plain style.. Writing or speech using aphelia may display a "right-branching" sentence structure for the most part; that is, the sentence will begin with an independent clause that will be followed by at least one dependent cl

  9. Hair Growth Oil Doesn't Really Work. Just Buy the Minoxidil.

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    Rosemary Oil. A very common oil included in natural hair growth products, studies have noted the efficacy of rosemary in promoting hair growth. In one study, results showed that rosemary oil may ...