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2. Wikipedia : List of English contractions

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   has not haven’t: have not he’d: he had / he would he'd'nt've (informal) he did not have / he would not have he'll: he shall / he will helluva (informal) hell of a yesn't (informal) yes not / no he’s: he has / he is here’s: here is how’d (informal) how did / how would howdy (informal) how do you do / how do you fare how’ll: how will ...

3. Do-support - Wikipedia

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   Do-support (sometimes referred to as do-insertion or periphrastic do), in English grammar, is the use of the auxiliary verb do (or one of its inflected forms e.g. does), to form negated clauses and constructions which require subject–auxiliary inversion, such as questions.

4. Light verb - Wikipedia

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   a. He did call Susan yesterday. b. Did he call Susan yesterday? – The auxiliary did inverts with the subject. c. He did not call Susan yesterday. – The auxiliary did can take not as a postdependent. a. He did the review of my paper yesterday. b. *Did he the review of my paper yesterday? – The light verb did cannot invert with the subject. c.

5. American and British English grammatical differences

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   However, in British grammar, it is also possible for should and would to have the same meaning, with a distinction only in terms of formality (should simply being more formal than would). For most Americans, this nuance has been lost, with would being used in both contexts; [ 22 ] for example, I should like to leave is no longer a formal way to ...

6. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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   An incomplete sentence, or sentence fragment, is a set of words that does not form a complete sentence, either because it does not express a complete thought or because it lacks some grammatical element, such as a subject or a verb. [6] [7] A dependent clause without an independent clause is an example of an incomplete sentence.

7. Double negative - Wikipedia

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   Examples are "ever", "anything" and "anyone" in the sentence "I haven't ever owed anything to anyone" (cf. "I haven't never owed nothing to no one" in negative-concord dialects of English, and "Nunca devi nada a ninguém" in Portuguese, lit. "Never have I owed nothing to no one", or "Non ho mai dovuto nulla a nessuno" in Italian). Negative ...

8. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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   There is no convincing evidence that Churchill said this, and good reason to believe that he did not.) [19] [20] The sentence "does not demonstrate the absurdity of using [prepositional phrase] fronting instead of stranding; it merely illustrates the ungrammaticality resulting from fronting something that is not a constituent". [21] [22]

9. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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   The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...