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  2. Verbal intelligence - Wikipedia

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    These mechanisms can be broken down into four major groups: speech generation (talking), speech comprehension (hearing), writing generation (writing), and writing comprehension (reading). In a practical sense, linguistic intelligence is the extent to which an individual can use language , both written and verbal, to achieve goals.

  3. Talent - Wikipedia

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    Talent has two principal meanings: Talent (measurement) , an ancient unit of mass and value Aptitude or talent, a group of aptitudes useful for some activities; talents may refer to aptitudes themselves or to possessors of those talents

  4. Aptitude - Wikipedia

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    An aptitude is a component of a competence to do a certain kind of work at a certain level. Outstanding aptitude can be considered "talent", or "skill".Aptitude is inborn potential to perform certain kinds of activities, whether physical or mental, and whether developed or undeveloped.

  5. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced". [6] [7] [8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [9]

  6. Grammatical category - Wikipedia

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    But in generative grammar, which sees meaning as separate from grammar, they are categories that define the distribution of syntactic elements. [1] For structuralists such as Roman Jakobson grammatical categories were lexemes that were based on binary oppositions of "a single feature of meaning that is equally present in all contexts of use".

  7. Linguistic competence - Wikipedia

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    For example, many linguistic theories, particularly in generative grammar, give competence-based explanations for why English speakers would judge the sentence in (1) as odd. In these explanations, the sentence would be ungrammatical because the rules of English only generate sentences where demonstratives agree with the grammatical number of ...

  8. Ability - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, this person should be able to point out what follows from the fact that something is a wombat, e.g. that it is an animal, that it has short legs or that it has a slow metabolism. It is usually taken that these abilities have to be possessed to a significant degree but that perfection is not necessary.

  9. Dramatism - Wikipedia

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    Burke asserts that all things have substance, which he defines as the general nature of something. Identification is a recognized common ground between two people's substances, regarding physical characteristics, talents, occupation, experiences, personality, beliefs, and attitudes.