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Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal is a young-adult novel by Mal Peet, published by Walker Books in 2005.Within a 1995 frame story, where a 15-year-old girl inherits papers and other mementos from her deceased grandfather, it is set in the occupied Netherlands near the end of the Second World War; there it features two British-trained Dutch agents and the resistance to German ...
You may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as (for) a lamb; You must have rocks in your head; You scratch my back and I will scratch yours; You only live once. You'll never get if you never go; You're never fully dressed without a smile; You've got to separate the wheat from the chaff; You've made your bed and you must lie in/on it
In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the innate biological component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky.The basic postulate of UG is that there are innate constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be.
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Robert Lowth: A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes. [36] 1763. John Ash: Grammatical institutes: or, An easy introduction to Dr. Lowth's English grammar. [37] 1765. William Ward: An Essay on English Grammar. [38] 1766. Samuel Johnson: A dictionary of the English Language...: to which is prefixed, a Grammar of the English ...
Speaking her mind. Britney Spears plans to bare all in her upcoming book, an insider exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. Britney Spears' Ups and Downs With Sister Jamie Lynn Through ...
Elocutio – the stage of elaborating the wording of a text, using correct grammar and diction. Enallage – the switching of grammatical forms for an expressive purpose. Enthymeme – a type of argument that is grounded in assumed commonalities between a rhetor and the audience. (For example: Claim 1: Bob is a person. Therefore, Claim 3: Bob ...