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  • 71say / said vs tell / told —   To say v. Means to pronounce words or sounds, to express a thought, opinion, or suggestion, or to state a fact or instruction.   For example: I often say the wrong thing.   Said v. is the past simple and past participle of to say. It can be… …

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  • 72say / said vs tell / told —   To say v. Means to pronounce words or sounds, to express a thought, opinion, or suggestion, or to state a fact or instruction.   For example: I often say the wrong thing.   Said v. is the past simple and past participle of to say. It can be… …

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  • 73indirect — adj. 1 not going straight to the point. 2 (of a route etc.) not straight. 3 not directly sought or aimed at (an indirect result). 4 (of lighting) from a concealed source and diffusely reflected. Phrases and idioms: indirect object Gram. a person… …

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  • 74Slovene punctuation — Punctuation marks are one or two part graphical marks used in writing, denoting tonal progress, pauses, sentence type (syntactic use), abbreviations, et cetera.Marks used in Slovene include full stops (.), question marks (?), exclamation marks… …

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  • 75Czech language — Czech Čeština, Český jazyk Spoken in Czech Republic Serbia Region Central Europe Native speakers 12 million …

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  • 76Ellipsis — For other uses, see Ellipsis (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Ellipse. … Ellipsis …

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  • 77Anthony Zinni — Infobox Military Person name= Anthony Charles Zinni born= birth date and age|1943|9|17 died= placeofbirth= Conshohocken, Pennsylvaniaeducation= Undergrad Villanova 1965, Master s Degree from Central Michigan University 1984… …

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  • 78like — like1 liker, n. /luyk/, adj., (Poetic) liker, likest, prep., adv., conj., n., v., liked, liking, interj. adj. 1. of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance. 2. co …

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  • 79Shall and will — are both modal verbs in English used to express propositions about the future. Contents 1 Usage 1.1 Simple future 1.2 Questions 1.3 …

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  • 80backshift — 1. noun The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech. Example: Fred says I play football . => Fred said that he played football. 2. verb To change the …

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