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  2. Impersonal passive voice - Wikipedia

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    Venetian has the impersonal passive voice, also called intransitive passive, since it is built from intransitive verbs. The verb parlar "to speak" is intransitive and takes an indirect object marked by a "to" or by co "with": although there is no direct object to be promoted to subject, the verb can be passivized becoming subjectless, i.e. impersonal.

  3. Passive voice - Wikipedia

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    In the first sentence, the combination of the auxiliary verb "is" and the past participle "fed" is a regular example of the construction of the passive voice in English. In the second sentence, "is" can however be interpreted as an ordinary copula and the past participle as an adjective.

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  5. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    If separating words using spaces is also permitted, the total number of known possible meanings rises to 58. [37] Czech has the syllabic consonants [r] and [l], which can stand in for vowels. A well-known example of a sentence that does not contain a vowel is Strč prst skrz krk, meaning "stick your finger through the neck."

  6. Object–verb–subject word order - Wikipedia

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    In the last example, it is highly unlikely that fish is the subject and so that word order can be used. In some languages, auxiliary rules of word order can provide enough disambiguation for an emphatic use of OVS. For example, declarative statements in Danish are ordinarily SVnO, with "n" being is the position of negating or modal adverbs ...

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    Nigel Richards is a Scrabble phenomenon! The New Zealand native claimed the recent Spanish World Scrabble Championships, despite not speaking the language.

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    On Thursday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order designating Christmas Eve as a federal holiday for most employees.

  9. Expletive (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Not all profanities are grammatical expletives (and vice versa). For example, in the sentence, "The bloody thing is shit, hey": "Bloody", as an attributive adjective, is an optional constituent of the sentence (thus not an expletive in the syntactical sense) and is a profanity. "Shit" is necessary to the sentence, and it is a profanity.