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2. Indirect speech - Wikipedia

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   Some modal verbs (would, could, might, should, ought to) do not change in indirect speech. [3] The indirect speech sentence is then ambiguous since it can be a result of two different direct speech sentences. For example: I can get it for free. OR I could get it for free. He said that he could get it for free. (ambiguity) However, in many ...

3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

4. Sentence diagram - Wikipedia

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   Grammar Revolution—The English Grammar Exercise Page by Elizabeth O'Brien; GrammarBrain - Sentence Diagramming Rules; SenGram, an iPhone and iPad app that presents sentence diagrams as puzzles. Diagramming Sentences [dead link ‍], including many advanced configurations; SenDraw [dead link ‍], a computer program that specializes in Reed ...

5. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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   An exclamative is a sentence type in English that typically expresses a feeling or emotion, but does not use one of the other structures. It often has the form as in the examples below of [WH + Complement + Subject + Verb], but can be minor sentences (i.e. without a verb) such as [WH + Complement] How wonderful!.

6. Cloze test - Wikipedia

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   The definition of success in a given cloze test varies, depending on the broader goals behind the exercise. Assessment may depend on whether the exercise is objective (i.e. students are given a list of words to use in a cloze) or subjective (i.e. students are to fill in a cloze with words that would make a given sentence grammatically correct).

7. Sequence of tenses - Wikipedia

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   In Latin, the sequence of tenses rule affects dependent verbs in the subjunctive mood, mainly in indirect questions, indirect commands, and purpose clauses. [4] If the main verb is in one of the non-past tenses, the subordinate verb is usually in the present or perfect subjunctive (primary sequence); if the main verb is in one of the past tenses, the subordinate verb is usually in the ...

8. English conditional sentences - Wikipedia

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   In English conditional sentences, the antecedent (protasis) is a dependent clause, most commonly introduced by the complementizer if.Other complementizers may also be used, such as whenever, unless, provided (that), and as long as.

9. Voice (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   Indirect passives have two varieties, possessive passives and gapless passives. In possessive passives, the grammatical subject stands in a canonical possessive relation with the direct object and in gapless passives they appear to lack an active counterpart and contain an extra argument is realized as the grammatical subject that is unlicensed ...