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2. Agreement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated agr) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates. [1] It is an instance of inflection , and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category (such as gender or person ) "agree" between varied words or parts of the sentence .

3. File:A higher English grammar (IA higherenglishgra00bainrich).pdf

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4. Double negative - Wikipedia

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   Robert Lowth stated in his grammar textbook A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762) that "two negatives in English destroy one another, or are equivalent to an affirmative". [20] Grammarians have assumed that Latin was the model for Lowth and other early grammarians in prescribing against negative concord, as Latin does not feature it.

5. Synesis - Wikipedia

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   Such use in English grammar is often called notional agreement (or notional concord [2]), because the agreement is with the notion of what the noun means, rather than the strict grammatical form of the noun (the normative formal agreement).

6. Concord (grammar) - Wikipedia

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7. American and British English grammatical differences

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   [1]: 322 Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmE prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object [adjective-]"fit" (i.e., suited) for a purpose; in spatial transitive contexts, AmE uses fitted for the sense of having made an ...

8. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

9. Phi features - Wikipedia

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   Chomsky first proposed that the N node in a clause carries with it all the features to include person, number and gender. [4] In English, we rely on nouns to determine the phi-features of a word, but some other languages rely on inflections of the different parts of speech to determine person, number and gender of the nominal phrases to which they refer. [5]