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  2. Grammatical modifier - Wikipedia

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    An example is land in the phrase land mines given above. Examples of the above types of modifiers, in English, are given below. It was [a nice house]. (adjective modifying a noun, in a noun phrase) [The swiftly flowing waters] carried it away. (adjectival phrase, in this case a participial phrase, modifying a noun in a noun phrase)

  3. Affirmation and negation - Wikipedia

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    An example is Japanese, which conjugates verbs in the negative after adding the suffix -nai (indicating negation), e.g. taberu ("eat") and tabenai ("do not eat"). It could be argued that English has joined the ranks of these languages, since negation requires the use of an auxiliary verb and a distinct syntax in most cases; the form of the ...

  4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Examples are in England, under the table, after six pleasant weeks, between the land and the sea. A prepositional phrase can be used as a complement or post-modifier of a noun in a noun phrase, as in the man in the car , the start of the fight ; as a complement of a verb or adjective, as in deal with the problem , proud of oneself ; or ...

  5. Double negative - Wikipedia

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    Two of them also use emphasis to make the meaning clearer. The last example is a popular example of a double negative that resolves to a positive. This is because the verb 'to doubt' has no intensifier which effectively resolves a sentence to a positive. Had we added an adverb thus: I never had no doubt this sentence is false.

  6. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

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    positive orientation: turned towards the house Chukchi | Manchu: Revertive case: negative orientation: against the house Manchu: Translative case: change of a condition into another (turning) into a house Erzya | Estonian | Finnish [12] | Hungarian | Japanese | Khanty | Manchu | Kven

  7. Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia

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    A perfect example is the glass metaphor: Is the glass half full or is it half empty. The choice of being half full represents an optimistic viewpoint while the choice of being half empty represents a pessimistic viewpoint. Not only does viewpoint aspect separate into negative and positive, but rather different point of views.

  8. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    Grammatically corrected as: "That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is". [4] [5] Can can can can can can can can can can. – "Examples of the can-can dance that other examples of the same dance are able to outshine, or figuratively to put into the trashcan, are themselves able to outshine examples of the same dance". It ...

  9. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are rendered in an inflected or periphrastic way to indicate a comparative degree, property, quality, or quantity of a corresponding word, phrase, or clause.

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