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  2. Wenja language - Wikipedia

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    Sentences in Wenja commonly start with a sentence-initial particle. These particles can both indicate grammatical properties and serve as conjunctions. The ten main sentence starters are: [29] nu (pre-vowel variant nw-): "indeed, yes, now" (emphasises realis mood). na: "no, not" ku (pre-vowel variant kw-): interrogative particle. [note 3]

  3. Positive anymore - Wikipedia

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    Positive anymore is the use of the adverb anymore in an affirmative context. [1] While any more (also spelled anymore) is typically a negative/interrogative polarity item used in negative, interrogative, or hypothetical contexts, speakers of some dialects of English use it in positive or affirmative contexts, [notes 1] with a meaning similar to nowadays or from now on.

  4. Affirmation and negation - Wikipedia

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    An affirmative (positive) form is used to express the validity or truth of a basic assertion, while a negative form expresses its falsity. For example, the affirmative sentence "Joe is here" asserts that it is true that Joe is currently located near the speaker. Conversely, the negative sentence "Joe is not here" asserts that it is not true ...

  5. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  7. 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.

  8. However - Wikipedia

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    However is an adverb in the English language. It may also refer to: "However Do You Want Me", a 1989 song by British R&B band Soul II Soul "However", a 1997 song by ...

  9. Valence (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The use of the term in psychology entered English with the translation from German ("Valenz") in 1935 of works of Kurt Lewin.The original German word suggests "binding", and is commonly used in a grammatical context to describe the ability of one word to semantically and syntactically link another, especially the ability of a verb to require a number of additional terms (e.g. subject and ...