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grammatical
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
grammatical • adjective 1. the grammatical structure of a sentence synonyms : syntactic, morphological; linguistic. 2. a grammatical sentence synonyms : well-formed, correct, proper; acceptable, allowable.
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dare
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...modal verb ( he dare not do it himself ). And the form it takes ( dares vs. dare in those examples) changes with that grammatical function. When dare is used as a full verb, it behaves just like most other verbs: it takes an -s with a third-person...
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cupola
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...or connection in general—e.g.: “This is the age of parsing, a word that once referred to the grammatical analysis of sentences. Now it means playing games with words, as Bill Clinton did with the copula ‘is’...
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one
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...best. Until quite recently, sentences in which one is followed by his or him were considered perfectly correct: one must try his best. These uses are now held to be less than perfectly grammatical (and possibly sexist as well).
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model
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
...guzzling cars). Paradigm can refer to an example that serves as a model, but today its use is primarily confined to a grammatical context, where it means a set giving all the various forms of a word, such as the conjugation of a verb.
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dialect
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
...substitute” vocabulary (“wheels” for car , “rug” for toupee ), grammatical distortions, and other departures from formal or polite usage. Argot refers to the slang of a group that feels threatened...
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idiomatic
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
idiomatic • adjective the president lacks an ear for idiomatic English synonyms : vernacular, colloquial, everyday, conversational; natural, grammatical, correct.
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solecism
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
solecism • noun 1. a poem marred by solecisms synonyms : (grammatical) mistake, error, blunder; informal howler, blooper. 2. it would have been a solecism to answer synonyms : faux...
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gender
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...xA0; USAGE NOTES gender, sex The word gender has been used since the fourteenth century primarily as a grammatical term, referring to the classes of noun in Latin, Greek, German, and other languages designated as masculine , feminine...
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oddity
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
...peculiarity, abnormality, rarity, rareness, bizarreness. See odd 2. 3. the house is an oddity | this is a grammatical oddity synonyms : curiosity, rarity, anomaly, aberration, irregularity, phenomenon. 4. he is an oddity synonyms...
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