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  2. 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.

  3. Comparative - Wikipedia

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    The elided material of comparative deletion is indicated using a blank, and the unacceptable b-sentences show what is construed as having been elided in the a-sentences: a. Fred reads more books than Susan reads ___. b. *Fred reads more books than Susan reads books. - Sentence is bad because comparative deletion has not occurred. a.

  4. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2021 December 6 ...

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    1.1 Parsing of comparative sentences (English) 8 comments. 1.2 Children's syntax, for expresing: "whose". 10 comments. 1.3 Henrik Kyhls "kileindgribningssystem" 9 ...

  5. Double comparative - Wikipedia

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    When an adjective includes two comparative markers, it is referred to as a double comparative. Examples of double comparatives include phrases such as "more louder" and "worser." The use of double comparatives is most commonly linked to specific dialects, particularly Appalachian English and African American Vernacular English.

  6. Comparative illusion - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a comparative illusion (CI) or Escher sentence [a] is a comparative sentence which initially seems to be acceptable but upon closer reflection has no well-formed, sensical meaning. The typical example sentence used to typify this phenomenon is More people have been to Russia than I have .

  7. 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.

  8. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    The sentence pukul pemukul pemukul yang memukul pemukul secara pukul-pukulan dan pukul pemukul dengan pemukul pukul dua agar pemukul terpukul karena dipukul dengan pemukul means "hit the hammer beater that hit the hammer 'riotly' and hit the beater with [a] hammer at 2 o'clock so the beater feel depressed because he was beaten by hammer".

  9. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the center of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it. In most sentences, English marks grammatical relations only through word order. The subject constituent precedes the verb and the object constituent follows it.