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

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    group of friends or colleagues ("I saw him and his crew at the bar") rowing as a sport crib (n.) nativity scene, crèche (q.v.) * a manger or rack, or stall for cattle a plagiarism, as of a student ("crib sheet") cribbage: small enclosed bedstead for a child; hence crib death (UK: cot) (informal) one's house or apartment a bin for storing maize

  3. Morphosyntactic alignment - Wikipedia

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    gizona -∅ the.man - ABS S etorri da has arrived VERB intrans gizona -∅ {etorri da} the.man -ABS {has arrived} S VERB intrans 'The man has arrived.' Gizonak mutila ikusi du. gizona -k the.man - ERG A mutila -∅ boy - ABS O ikusi du saw VERB trans gizona -k mutila -∅ {ikusi du} the.man -ERG boy -ABS saw A O VERB trans 'The man saw the boy.' In Basque, gizona is "the man" and mutila is ...

  4. Saw III - Wikipedia

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    Saw III is a 2006 horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman from a screenplay by Leigh Whannell and a story by Whannell and James Wan.It is the third installment in the Saw film series and a sequel to 2005's Saw II, starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh, and Dina Meyer.

  5. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Standard: This statute allows the state to levy a 3% tax. Non-standard: Recent storms have weakened the levy. loathe and loath or loth: Loathe is a verb meaning "to strongly dislike", and loath (or loth) is an adjective meaning "unwilling" or "reluctant". Standard: I loathe arrogant people. Standard: I was loath to concede defeat.

  6. Grammaticalization - Wikipedia

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    Grammaticalization can involve content words, such as nouns and verbs, developing into new function words that express grammatical relationships among other words in a sentence. This may happen rather than speakers deriving such new function words from (for example) existing bound , inflectional constructions.

  7. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    English irregular verbs are now a closed group, which means that newly formed verbs are always regular and do not adopt any of the irregular patterns. This list only contains verb forms which are listed in the major dictionaries as being standard usage in modern English. There are also many thousands of archaic, non-standard and dialect variants.

  8. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    2 Verbs. 3 Prepositions and other words used to form compound words. 4 See also. 5 Notes. 6 References. Toggle the table of contents. List of Latin words with English ...

  9. Dependent clause - Wikipedia

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    However, the English relative pronoun (other than what) may be omitted and only implied if it plays the role of the object of the verb or object of a preposition in a restrictive clause; for example, He is the boy I saw is equivalent to He is the boy whom I saw, and I saw the boy you are talking about is equivalent to the more formal I saw the ...