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  • 1Cleft sentence — A cleft sentence is a complex sentence (one having a main clause and a dependent clause) that has a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence. Clefts typically put a particular constituent into focus. This focusing is often accompanied …

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  • 2linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… …

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  • 3Mesa Verde National Park — Mesa Verde redirects here. For other uses, see Mesa Verde (disambiguation). Mesa Verde National Park IUCN Category II (National Park) …

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  • 4Akhenaten — Pharaoh Infobox Name=Akhenaten / Amenhotep IV Alt= Amenophis IV, Naphu( )rureya, Ikhnaton Caption=Statue of Akhenaten in typical Amarna style. NomenHiero=i t:n:ra G25 x:n Nomen= Akhenaten Servant of the Aten or reflection of the wiserClayton… …

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  • 5Disjunctive pronoun — A disjunctive pronoun is a stressed form of a personal pronoun reserved for use in isolation or in certain syntactic contexts. Contents 1 Examples and usage 2 It s me 3 See also 4 Ref …

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  • 6AKKADIAN LANGUAGE — Akkadian is the designation for a group of closely related East Semitic dialects current in Mesopotamia from the early third millennium until the Christian era. Closely connected to it is Eblaite, the language found at Tell Maradikh (ancient… …

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  • 7Split infinitive — A split infinitive is an English language grammatical construction in which a word or phrase, usually an adverb or adverbial phrase, comes between the marker to and the bare infinitive (uninflected) form of a verb. For example, a split infinitive …

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  • 8Tikal — For other uses, see Tikal (disambiguation). Tikal National Park * UNESCO World Heritage Site …

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  • 9Domus Aurea — This article is about the Roman Villa. For the Church in Antioch, see Domus Aurea (Antioch). Domus Aurea Location Regione III Isis et Serap Built in c.64 68AD Built by/for Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Type of structure Roman villa …

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  • 10Wuhu — (zh sp|s=芜湖|p=Wúhú; literally Weedy Lake ) is a prefecture level city in the southeastern Anhui province, People s Republic of China. Sitting on the southeast bank of the Yangtze River, Wuhu borders Xuancheng to the southeast, Chizhou and… …

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