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  2. Transition (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A transition or linking word is a word or phrase that shows the relationship between paragraphs or sections of a text or speech. [1] Transitions provide greater cohesion by making it more explicit or signaling how ideas relate to one another. [1] Transitions are, in fact, "bridges" that "carry a reader from section to section". [1]

  3. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    The sentence can be read as "Reginam occidere nolite, timere bonum est, si omnes consentiunt, ego non. Contradico. " ("don't kill the Queen, it is good to be afraid, even if all agree I do not. I object."), or the opposite meaning " Reginam occidere nolite timere, bonum est; si omnes consentiunt ego non contradico.

  4. Transitive verb - Wikipedia

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    To elaborate, an action verb is a verb that has a physical action associated to its meaning. The sentence must contain a direct object meaning there must be a recipient of said verb. Two entities must be involved when using a transitive sentence. There is also a fixed word order associated with transitive sentences: subject-transitive verb ...

  5. 'Wait, What Did You Say?' 125 Tongue-Twisting Telephone Game ...

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    Nonsense Phrases To Repeat. 1. A bright bunch of blueberries sat on a big boat. 2. A clam crams cream in a cramped can. 3. A quiet ostrich quacks quietly. 4. Big brother beats beef. 5. Cell phones ...

  6. List of grammatical cases - Wikipedia

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    marking a transition from a condition: from being a house (i.e., it stops being a house) Estonian (rare) | Finnish (dialectal) Formal case: marking a condition as a quality: as a house Hungarian: Identical case: showing equality: being the house Manchu: Orientative case: positive orientation: turned towards the house Chukchi | Manchu: Revertive ...

  7. Transitional phrase - Wikipedia

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    The transitional phrase acts as a limitation on the claim, indicating whether a similar device, method, or composition infringes the patent if it contains more or fewer elements than the claim in the patent. There are three kinds of transitional phrases: open, closed, and hybrid.

  8. Transition (fiction) - Wikipedia

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    Transitions in fiction are words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or punctuation that may be used to signal various changes in a story, including changes in time, location, point-of-view character, mood, tone, emotion, and pace. [1] [2] Transitions are sometimes listed as one of various fiction-writing modes.

  9. Cohesion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Some examples: replacing "the taxi driver" with the pronoun "he" or "two girls" with "they". Another example can be found in formulaic sequences such as "as stated previously" or "the aforementioned". Cataphoric reference is the opposite of anaphora: a reference forward as opposed to backward in the discourse. Something is introduced in the ...