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  2. English interjections - Wikipedia

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    Little has been said about the syntax of English interjections apart from that they generally do not form phrases or constituents with other words. [8]: 101 But English interjections derived from verbs may exceptionally combine with noun phrase complements, such as the noun phrase these mosquitoes in damn these mosquitoes.

  3. OpenThesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap

  4. List of Latin abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    "that is", "in other words", [1] "is equivalent" (mnemonic) Introduces an explanation (as opposed to an example): "For reasons not fully understood there is only a minor PSI contribution to the variable fluorescence emission of chloroplasts (Dau, 1994), i.e. , the PSI fluorescence appears to be independent from the state of its reaction centre ...

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    steel bar with one curved end, for prying things apart [49] [9] [50] [51] Crowbar (circuit), a form of electronic protection crumpet: an attractive female (slang) A savoury waffle-like cake made from flour or potato and yeast [citation needed] cubicle A compartment in a bathroom with low walls that contains a toilet. (US: stall)

  6. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages).. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.

  7. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Bisect means "to cut into two"; dissect means "to cut apart", both literally and figuratively. Disect is an archaic word meaning "to separate by cutting", but has not been in common use since the 17th century. Standard: The Americas are bisected by the Panama canal. Standard: She dissected Smith's dissertation, pointing out scores of errors.

  8. English prepositions - Wikipedia

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    In other words, prepositions were defined as words that take a noun phrase (NP) complement. Verbs, though, take various complements, including object, goal complement, predicative complement, and no complement at all, in the case of an intransitive verb.

  9. Neologism - Wikipedia

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    Neologisms are often formed by combining existing words (see compound noun and adjective) or by giving words new and unique suffixes or prefixes. [9] Neologisms can also be formed by blending words, for example, "brunch" is a blend of the words "breakfast" and "lunch", or through abbreviation or acronym, by intentionally rhyming with existing words or simply through playing with sounds.