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2. American and British English grammatical differences

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   [1]: 322 Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmE prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object [adjective-]"fit" (i.e., suited) for a purpose; in spatial transitive contexts, AmE uses fitted for the sense of having made an ...

3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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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.. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to ...

4. Linguistics of Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia

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   Chomsky developed transformational grammar in the mid-1950s, whereupon it became the dominant syntactic theory in linguistics for two decades. [19] "Transformations" refers to syntactic relationships within language, e.g., being able to infer that the subject between two sentences is the same person. [21]

5. Syntactic Structures - Wikipedia

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   Syntax was recognized as the focal point of language production, in which a finite set of rules can produce an infinite number of sentences. Subsequently, morphology (i.e. the study of structure and formation of words) and phonology (i.e. the study of organization of sounds in languages) were relegated in importance.

6. Teaching English as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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   Teaching English as a second ( TESL) or foreign language ( TEFL) and teaching English to speakers of other languages ( TESOL) are terms that refer to teaching English to students whose first language is not English. The terms TEFL, TESL, and TESOL distinguish between a class's location and student population, [ 1] and have become problematic ...

7. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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   British and other Commonwealth English use the ending -logue while American English commonly uses the ending -log for words like analog (ue), catalog (ue), dialog (ue), homolog (ue), etc., etymologically derived from Greek -λόγος -logos ("one who speaks (in a certain manner)").

8. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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   The number of distinct senses that are listed in Wiktionary is shown in the polysemy column. For example, "out" can refer to an escape, a removal from play in baseball, or any of 36 other concepts. On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in ...

9. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language - Wikipedia

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   46641801. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ( CamGEL[ n 1]) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and has been cited more than 8,000 times.