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2. Focus (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Focus distinguishes one interpretation of a sentence from other interpretations of the same sentence that do not differ in word order, but may differ in the way in which the words are taken to relate to each other. To see the effects of focus on meaning, consider the following examples: (6) John only introduced Bill to SUE.

3. Topic and comment - Wikipedia

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   In these examples the syntactic subject position (to the left of the verb) is manned by the meaningless expletive ("it" or "there"), whose sole purpose is satisfying the extended projection principle, and is nevertheless necessary. In these sentences the topic is never the subject, but is determined pragmatically. In all these cases, the whole ...

4. Cleft sentence - Wikipedia

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   In English, all-cleft sentences are related to pseudo-clefts in which they are constructed with the subject of the sentence embedded in the phrase and expressed with the verb "to be". [8] Where pseudo-clefts begin with a wh-phrase (what, where, who), all-clefts begin with the use of the word "all". [8] All Cleft sentence: "All they want is a ...

5. Topic sentence - Wikipedia

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   In expository writing, a topic sentence is a sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph. [1] [2] It is usually the first sentence in a paragraph. Also known as a focus sentence, it encapsulates or organizes an entire paragraph. Although topic sentences may appear anywhere in a paragraph, in academic essays they often appear at the ...

6. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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   [optional in place of period] when the language of the gloss lacks a one-word translation, a phrase may be joined by underscores, e.g., Turkish çık-mak (come_out-INF) "to come out" With some authors, the reverse is also true, for a two-word phrase glossed with a single word. [2] [21] › >, →, :

7. Nominative case - Wikipedia

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   In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated NOM), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments ...

8. Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight: How to watch highly ... - AOL

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   At long last, the hotly-debated fight between 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and 27-year-old former YouTuber Jake Paul is happening. This Friday, Nov. 15, boxing fans will get ...

9. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar , it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate .