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2. Mad Libs - Wikipedia

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   The cover of the first Stern and Price Mad Libs book Mad Libs is a word game created by Leonard Stern and Roger Price. It consists of one player prompting others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story before reading aloud. The game is frequently played as a party game or as a pastime. It can be categorized as a phrasal template game. The game was invented in the United States ...

3. Collocation - Wikipedia

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   This contrasts with an idiom, where the meaning of the whole cannot be inferred from its parts, and may be completely unrelated. There are about seven main types of collocations: adjective + noun, noun + noun (such as collective nouns ), noun + verb, verb + noun, adverb + adjective, verbs + prepositional phrase ( phrasal verbs ), and verb + adverb.

4. Consequences (game) - Wikipedia

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   Consequences is an old parlour game in a similar vein to Mad Libs and the surrealist game exquisite corpse. [1]Each player is given a sheet of paper, and all are told to write down a word or phrase to fit a description ("an animal"), optionally with some extra words to make the story.

5. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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   With the adjective as a modifier in a noun phrase, the adjective and the noun typically receive equal stress (a black bird), but in a compound, the adjective typically takes primary word stress (a blackbird). Only a small set of English adjectives function in this way: [37] The colour words black, blue, brown, green, grey, red, and white

6. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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   When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

7. Mad Libs (game show) - Wikipedia

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   In round one, a home viewer recited a Mad Lib that he/she wrote beforehand. That Mad Lib became a physical game, where the objective was to make the most progress within a 45-second time limit or to be the first team to complete the stunt. The team who won the stunt were awarded 20 points. If there was a tie, both teams got the points.

8. Kirby Smart's pregame speech was NSFW. Use our Mad Libs ... - AOL

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   Make it G-rated with this handy (and fun) Mad Libs-style game. Georgia coach Kirby Smart gave a fiery and NSFW speech before the CFP championship game. Make it G-rated with this handy (and fun ...

9. Verbnoun - Wikipedia

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   It is often formed by the addition of a suffix to a verb stem, though its form is sometimes the same as that of the verb stem. [2] For example, in the Manx language, "etl" is the verb stem (and imperative singular, as is usually the case in Celtic languages) corresponding to the English verb "fly". The verbnoun is formed by the addition of the ...