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  2. 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 ...

  3. Covering of the eyes - Wikipedia

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    One commentator [1] has interpreted the phrase as implied advice to Sarah to conform to a supposed custom of married women, and wear a complete veil, covering the eyes as well as the rest of the face, but the phrase is generally taken to refer not to Sarah's eyes, but to the eyes of others, and to be merely a metaphorical expression concerning ...

  4. Eyepatch - Wikipedia

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    Eye patching is used in the orthoptic management [2] of children at risk of lazy eye (), especially strabismic or anisometropic [3] amblyopia. These conditions can cause visual suppression of areas of the dissimilar images [4] by the brain such as to avoid diplopia, resulting in a loss of visual acuity in the suppressed eye and in extreme cases in blindness in an otherwise functional eye.

  5. English articles - Wikipedia

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    The articles in English are the definite article the and the indefinite articles a and an.They are the two most common determiners.The definite article is the default determiner when the speaker believes that the listener knows the identity of a common noun's referent (because it is obvious, because it is common knowledge, or because it was mentioned in the same sentence or an earlier sentence).

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Correct: An Eye for an Eye; Correct: Worth the Fighting For; Capitalization in non-English language titles varies, even over time within the same language; generally, retain the style of the original for modern works, and follow the usage in current [j] English-language reliable sources for historical

  7. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, [1] [2] allowing readers and writers to associate written graphemes with the sounds of spoken English, as well as other features of the language. [3] English's orthography includes norms for spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and ...

  8. Duck and cover - Wikipedia

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    After all, "Duck and Cover" is a first response countermeasure only, in much the same way that "Drop, Cover and Hold On" is during an earthquake, with the advice having served its purpose once the earthquake has passed, and possibly other dangers—like a tsunami or fallout—may be looming, which then require movement to high ground and ...

  9. English determiners - Wikipedia

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    [5]: 71 This analysis was developed in a 1962 grammar by Barbara M. H. Strang [5]: 73 and in 1972 by Randolph Quirk and colleagues. [5]: 74 In 1985, A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language appears to have been the first work to explicitly conceive of determiner as a distinct lexical category. [5]: 74