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  2. 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.

  3. Link grammar - Wikipedia

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    Link grammar connects the words in a sentence with links, similar in form to a catena.Unlike the catena or a traditional dependency grammar, the marking of the head-dependent relationship is optional for most languages, becoming mandatory only in free-word-order languages (such as Turkish, [3] [better source needed] Finnish, Hungarian).

  4. James while John had had had had had had had had had had had ...

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    The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.

  5. Participle - Wikipedia

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    Unlike standard verbs, participles don’t typically have objects or the usual modifiers that verbs have. However, they can be modified by adverbs such as very or slightly. The difference is illustrated by the following examples: The subject interesting him is Greek history. Greek history is an interesting subject.

  6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    For example, my very good friend Peter is a phrase that can be used in a sentence as if it were a noun, and is therefore called a noun phrase. Similarly, adjectival phrases and adverbial phrases function as if they were adjectives or adverbs, but with other types of phrases, the terminology has different implications.

  7. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Anaphora – a succession of sentences beginning with the same word or group of words. Anastrophe – inversion of the natural word order. Anecdote – a brief narrative describing an interesting or amusing event. Antanaclasis – a figure of speech involving a pun, consisting of the repeated use of the same word, each time with different meanings.

  8. Semantics - Wikipedia

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    Semantics is the study of meaning in languages. [1] It is a systematic inquiry that examines what linguistic meaning is and how it arises. [2] It investigates how expressions are built up from different layers of constituents, like morphemes, words, clauses, sentences, and texts, and how the meanings of the constituents affect one another. [3]

  9. Like - Wikipedia

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    Examples: I have, like, no money left. The restaurant is only, like, five miles from here. I, like, almost died! Conversely, like may also be used to indicate a counterexpectation to the speaker, or to indicate certainty regarding the following phrase. [5] Examples: There was, like, a living kitten in the box!