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  • 111prefer — 1. The inflected forms of the verb are preferred, preferring, but other derivatives have a single r (preferable, preferably, preference, preferential, preferment). 2. When the subject of prefer is the same as that of a following subordinate verb …

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  • 112find out — verb 1. establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study (Freq. 33) find the product of two numbers The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize • Syn: ↑determine, ↑find, ↑ascertain • Der …

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  • 113English grammar — is a body of rules (grammar) specifying how phrases and sentences are constructed in the English language. Accounts of English grammar tend to fall into two groups: the descriptivist , which describes the grammatical system of English; and the… …

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  • 114Raising (linguistics) — In linguistics, raising is a form of argument control in which an argument that belongs semantically to a subordinate clause is realized syntactically as a constituent of a higher clause. For example, the sentence Bill seemed to be angry is a… …

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  • 115Complementizer — In linguistics (especially generative grammar), a complementizer (or complementiser) is a syntactic category (part of speech) roughly equivalent to the term subordinating conjunction in traditional grammar. For example, the word that is generally …

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  • 116Reflexive pronoun — Herself redirects here. For the toy elf, see Herself the Elf. Himself redirects here. For other uses, see Himself (disambiguation). Oneself redirects here. For the hip hop artist, see Oneself (artist). Ourselves redirects here. For the 1988 punk… …

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  • 117dare — 1. verb 1) everyone wanted to say something, but nobody dared Syn: be brave enough, have the courage; venture, have the nerve, have the temerity, be so bold as, have the audacity; risk, hazard, take the liberty, stick one s neck out, go out on a… …

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  • 118mean — 1. In the meaning ‘to intend’, mean can be followed by a to infinitive (when the speaker intends to do something: I meant to go), by an object + to infinitive (when the speaker intends someone else to do something: I meant you to go) and, more… …

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  • 119Mixtec language — Mixtecan Spoken in Mexico; USA Region Oaxaca, Puebla, Guerrero; California Native speakers 550,000  (date missing) Language family …

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  • 120do — do1 [ du ] (3rd person singular does [ weak dəz, strong dʌz ] ; past tense did [ dıd ] ; past participle done [ dʌn ] ) verb *** Do can be used in the following ways: as an auxiliary verb, especially for forming questions and negatives in the… …

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