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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    3 Two Word Semi-Modal Auxiliary Verb Phrases. ... This is a list of English auxiliary verbs, i.e. helping verbs, which include Modal verbs and Semi-modal verbs.

  4. English verbs - Wikipedia

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    A regular English verb has only one principal part, from which all the forms of the verb can be derived.This is the base form or dictionary form.For example, from the base form exist, all the inflected forms of the verb (exist, exists, existed, existing) can be predictably derived.

  5. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    The simple past or past simple, sometimes also called the preterite, consists of the bare past tense of the verb (ending in -ed for regular verbs, and formed in various ways for irregular ones, with the following spelling rules for regular verbs: verbs ending in -e add only –d to the end (e.g. live – lived, not *liveed), verbs ending in -y ...

  6. To Be - Wikipedia

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    To be is a copula, a word used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a subject complement). To Be may also refer to: To Be, a 1997 album by Karen Mok; To Be, a 1990 short animation film by John Weldon "To Be" (song), a 1999 song by Ayumi Hamasaki "To Be", a song by Blue October from their 2013 album Sway

  7. Three-letter rule - Wikipedia

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    In English spelling, the three-letter rule, [n 1] or short-word rule, [2] is the observation that one- and two-letter words tend to be function words such as I, at, he, if, of, or, etc. [3] As a consequence of the rule, "content words" tend to have at least three letters. In particular, content words containing fewer than three phonemes may be ...

  8. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...

  9. Three Words (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Three Words" is song recorded by South Korean boy band Sechs Kies, released on October 7, 2016, as a digital single by YG Entertainment and later included on their 2017 compilation album, The 20th Anniversary. It was written by Tablo while the production was done by Future Bounce. Musically, it is a mid-tempo ballad. [1]