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  2. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    The associated grammatical category is degree of comparison. [1] The usual degrees of comparison are the positive, which simply denotes a property (as with the English words big and fully); the comparative, which indicates greater degree (as bigger and more fully); and the superlative, which indicates greatest degree (as biggest and most fully ...

  3. Comparative - Wikipedia

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    Comparative subdeletion is a second type of ellipsis in comparatives that some accounts acknowledge. [7] It occurs when the focused constituent in the than-clause is not deleted because it is distinct from its counterpart in the main clause. In other words, comparative subdeletion occurs when comparative deletion does not because the ...

  4. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] For example, the adjective tall can be modified by the adverb phrase very. Less common pre-head modifiers in adjective phrases are noun phrases (e.g., six feet long), preposition phrases (e.g., by no means realistic), and determiner phrases (e.g., that small). [8] Preposition phrases function as post-head modifiers in English adjective ...

  5. Category:Hindi words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves.Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase.

  6. David Trinko: Busy is a choice you make - AOL

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    Dec. 2—Busy is a word we all use this time of year. I find it helpful to ponder whether that busy is an adjective or a verb, as that distinction probably answers how happy you are about it. At ...

  7. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    in use – of a toilet/bathroom stall (US: occupied; but the opposite is vacant in both); of a telephone line (US & UK also: busy), hence engaged tone (US: busy signal) committed; involved in something betrothed English of or pertaining to England the English language (adj.) the foot-pound-second system of units [citation needed] (UK: Imperial)

  8. A woman bypassed multiple security checkpoints to get on a ...

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    Investigators are trying to determine how a woman got past multiple security checkpoints this week at New York’s JFK International Airport and boarded a plane to Paris, apparently hiding in the ...

  9. Comparative case - Wikipedia

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    The comparative case (abbreviated COMP) is a grammatical case which marks a nominal as "comparative" in some sense. The term comparative case can designate a case marker which performs the role of marking likeness of a noun to something else, and it can also refer to a discrete grammatical case which marks the noun serving as the standard of comparison in a comparative construction.