The English relative words are words in English used to mark a clause, noun phrase or preposition phrase as relative. The central relative words in English...
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The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of "word" and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...
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The English interrogative words (also known as "wh words" or "wh forms") are words in English with a central role in forming interrogative phrases and...
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Then, Middle English borrowed vocabulary extensively from French dialects, which are the source of approximately 28% of Modern English words, and from Latin...
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Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious among writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially...
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abbreviations of mathematics. Some British English words come from French roots, while American English finds its words from other places, e.g. AmE eggplant...
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Relative clauses in the English language are formed principally by means of relative words. The basic relative pronouns are who, which, and that; who also...
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This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing...
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languages, the relative pronoun is an invariable word. Words used as relative pronouns often originally had other functions. For example, the English which is...
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The English pronouns form a relatively small category of words in Modern English whose primary semantic function is that of a pro-form for a noun phrase...
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spellings, mean that the spelling of modern English words appears highly irregular. Early Modern English – the language used by William Shakespeare –...
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General Service List (redirect from A General Service List of English Words)
list of roughly 2,000 words published by Michael West in 1953. The words were selected to represent the most frequent words of English and were taken from...
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Interrogative word (redirect from Interrogative words)
whom, whose, why, whether and how. They are sometimes called wh-words, because in English most of them start with wh- (compare Five Ws). Most may be used...
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In linguistics, a relativizer (abbreviated RELZ) is a type of conjunction that introduces a relative clause. For example, in English, the conjunction that...
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English prepositions are words – such as of, in, on, at, from, etc. – that function as the head of a prepositional phrase, and most characteristically...
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English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts...
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This is a list of English words that are thought to be commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers...
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Bhojpuri language (redirect from List of Bhojpuri words of English origin)
words of Bhojpuri in to 6 parts: Words of Sanskrit origin Words with untraceable origin Words borrowed from other Indo-Aryan Languages Sanskrit words...
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list of words of Korean origin which have entered into English usage. One metric for determining this is whether they appear in mainstream English language...
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contrasts an English non-reduced relative clause and reduced relative clause. Because of the omission of function words, the use of reduced relative clauses...
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Profanity (redirect from Swear words)
profanity. Other swear words do not refer to any subject, such as the English word bloody when used in its profane sense. Not all taboo words are used in swearing...
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difference in English is that only restrictive relative clauses may be introduced with that or use the "zero" relative pronoun (see English relative clauses...
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of HM Treasury, Plain Words (1948) and ABC of Plain Words (1951). The aim of the book is to help officials in their use of English as a tool of their trade...
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or suffix). The most common types of zero-marking in English involve zero articles, zero relative pronouns, and zero subordinating conjunctions. Examples...
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based on relative social standing and respect. Some word classes are universally closed, however, including demonstratives and interrogative words. Part-of-speech...
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The pervasiveness of words of French origin that have been borrowed into English is comparable to that of borrowings from Latin. Contents Top A–C D–I...
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List of types of killing (redirect from List of -cide words)
Look up -cide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up Category:English words suffixed with -cide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. https://www...
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T (redirect from Pronunciation of English T)
Unabridged (1993); "tee", op. cit. Lewand, Robert. "Relative Frequencies of Letters in General English Plain text". Cryptographical Mathematics. Central...
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English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English...
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technology). The suffix is often humorously appended to other English words to create nonce words. For example, stupidology would refer to the study of stupidity;...
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