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  2. Teacher - Wikipedia

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    A teacher of a Latin school and two students, 1487. A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. Informally the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. when showing a colleague how to perform a specific task).

  3. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    Such adjective phrases can be integrated into the clause (e.g., Love dies young) or detached from the clause as a supplement (e.g., Happy to see her, I wept). Adjective phrases functioning as predicative adjuncts are typically interpreted with the subject of the main clause being the predicand of the adjunct (i.e., "I was happy to see her"). [11]

  4. Guru - Wikipedia

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    gangzak gyüpé lama — the individual teacher who is the holder of the lineage; gyalwa ka yi lama — the teacher which is the word of the buddhas; nangwa da yi lama — the symbolic teacher of all appearances; rigpa dön gyi lama — the absolute teacher, which is rigpa, the true nature of mind

  5. Adjective - Wikipedia

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    An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun. Traditionally, adjectives are considered one of the main parts of speech of the English language, although historically they were classed together with nouns. [1]

  6. List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations

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    So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. "the French", "the Dutch") provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify). Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words.

  7. Teaching - Wikipedia

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    A teacher of a Latin school and two students, 1487. A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.

  8. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The adjectives good and bad have the irregular forms better, best and worse, worst; also far becomes farther, farthest or further, furthest. The adjective old (for which the regular older and oldest are usual) also has the irregular forms elder and eldest, these generally being restricted to use in comparing siblings and in

  9. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    The adjective-like nature of these prepositional phrases is indicated by the tendency for them to be hyphenated in writing and the fact that they can typically be paraphrased with an adjective phrase (compare the endangered postal service). [40] Similarly, adjective-like clauses can function as pre-head modifiers of nouns.