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1 | "Quickly" is a(n) adverb. | Humanities > Linguistics | 05/30/08 | |
2 | "Snuck", past tense of sneak, is not a word. "Sneaked" is correct. | Humanities > Linguistics | 06/09/08 | |
3 | "They're" is a contraction. | Humanities > Linguistics | 06/17/08 | |
4 | "Two bits" is a colloquial expression for 25 cents. | Humanities > Linguistics | 10/31/08 | |
5 | A conjunction is used to join two clauses. | Humanities > Linguistics | 05/29/08 | |
6 | A(n) interjection is a word or phrase that usually has no grammatical connection with the rest of the sentence and is used to express emotion. | Humanities > Linguistics | 12/31/08 | |
7 | A/An noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. | Humanities > Linguistics | 05/30/08 | |
8 | Mandarin is the most widely spoken language in the world. | Humanities > Linguistics | 08/08/09 | |
9 | Most words that end in "-ly" are adverbs, but lovely is a(n) adjective. | Humanities > Linguistics | 09/04/08 | |
10 | The Latin language is the root of the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian). | Humanities > Linguistics | 01/28/09 | |
11 | The word "wherefore" in, "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet means "why". | Humanities > Linguistics | 09/25/08 | |
12 | There are eight parts of speech in the English language. | Humanities > Linguistics | 06/01/08 | |
13 | Who describes the subject; whom describes the object. | Humanities > Linguistics | 04/23/12 |
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