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  2. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...

  3. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The verb may expresses possibility in either an epistemic or deontic sense, that is, in terms of probability or permissibility. For example: The mouse may be dead means that it is possible that the mouse (perhaps audible until the day before) is now dead. Trevor may leave if he'd prefer to play with his friends means that Trevor is permitted to ...

  4. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. Sentence 1 is an example of a simple sentence. Sentence 2 is compound because "so" is considered a coordinating conjunction in English, and sentence 3 is complex.

  5. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar , it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate .

  6. Sentence-final particle - Wikipedia

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    Sentence-final particles, including modal particles, [1] interactional particles, [2] etc., are minimal lexemes (words) that occur at the end of a sentence and that do not carry referential meaning, but may relate to linguistic modality, register or other pragmatic effects.

  7. Verb - Wikipedia

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    A verb may also agree with the person, gender or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object. In English, three tenses exist: present , to indicate that an action is being carried out; past , to indicate that an action has been done; future , to indicate that an action will be done, expressed with the auxiliary verb will or ...

  8. Phrase - Wikipedia

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    The distinction is illustrated with the following examples: The Republicans may nominate Newt. - Finite VP in bold The Republicans may nominate Newt. - Non-finite VP in bold. The syntax trees of this sentence are next: The constituency tree on the left shows the finite verb string may nominate Newt as a constituent; it corresponds to VP 1. In ...

  9. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    For example, after is a preposition in "he left after the fight" but a conjunction in "he left after they fought". In general, a conjunction is an invariant (non-inflecting) grammatical particle that stands between conjuncts. A conjunction may be placed at the beginning of a sentence, [1] but some superstition about the practice persists. [2]