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  2. Online Writing Lab - Wikipedia

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    Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, launched the first OWL, in 1994. Its OWL is freely available online to all, and includes handouts, specific subject information, resources geared towards students in grades 7–12, [ 1 ] and citation formatting help with MLA, APA and other forms.

  3. Apposition - Wikipedia

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    Apposition is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side so one element identifies the other in a different way.The two elements are said to be in apposition, and one of the elements is called the appositive, but its identification requires consideration of how the elements are used in a sentence.

  4. Ampersand - Wikipedia

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    Ampersand is the string concatenation operator in many BASIC dialects, AppleScript, Lingo, HyperTalk, and FileMaker. [citation needed] In Ada it applies to all one-dimensional arrays, not just strings. [citation needed] BASIC-PLUS on the DEC PDP-11 uses the ampersand as a short form of the verb PRINT. [citation needed]

  5. Singular they - Wikipedia

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    The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) states that "grammar shifts and changes over time", that the use of singular they is acceptable, [130] and that singular "they" as a replacement for "he" or "she" is more inclusive:

  6. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    This clause pattern is a derivative of S+V+O, transforming the object of a preposition into an indirect object of the verb, as the example sentence in transformational grammar is actually "She made a pie for me". Subject + Verb (transitive) + Object + Object Complement Example: They made him happy.

  7. Adjective phrase - Wikipedia

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    An adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase whose head is an adjective.Almost any grammar or syntax textbook or dictionary of linguistics terminology defines the adjective phrase in a similar way, e.g. Kesner Bland (1996:499), Crystal (1996:9), Greenbaum (1996:288ff.), Haegeman and Guéron (1999:70f.), Brinton (2000:172f.), Jurafsky and Martin (2000:362).

  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. MLA Handbook - Wikipedia

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    MLA Handbook grew out of the initial MLA Style Sheet of 1951 [5] (revised in 1970 [6] [7]), a 28-page "more or less official" standard. [8] The first five editions, published between 1977 and 1999 were titled MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.

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