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  2. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The central English modal auxiliary verbs are can (with could ), may (with might ), shall (with should ), will (with would ), and must. A few other verbs are usually also classed as modals: ought, and (in certain uses) dare, and need. Use ( /jus/, rhyming with "loose") is sometimes classed so as well.

  3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words , phrases , clauses , sentences , and whole texts. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers , from ...

  4. English Grammar in Use - Wikipedia

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    UK. Media type. Paper Book, or eBook. ISBN. 978-1-108-45765-1 (5th Ed) English Grammar in Use is a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate to advanced students of English. The book was written by Raymond Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press .

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    The grey-crowned babbler ( Pomatostomus temporalis) is a species of bird in the family Pomatostomidae, the Australo-Papuan babblers. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its habitats include subtropical, tropical dry and tropical moist lowland forests and shrublands as well as savanna.

  6. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ( CamGEL [n 1]) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and has been cited more than 8,000 times.

  7. English Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    English Wikipedia (marked blue in the graph) is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of the website's global traffic as of 2021. The English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time. The English Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007, [23] over a year since the ...

  8. English language - Wikipedia

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    e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in Early Medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

  9. File:A higher English grammar (IA higherenglishgra00bainrich).pdf

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    File:A higher English grammar (IA higherenglishgra00bainrich).pdf. Size of this JPG preview of this PDF file: 365 × 599 pixels. Other resolutions: 146 × 240 pixels | 508 × 833 pixels. Original file ‎ (508 × 833 pixels, file size: 22.18 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 396 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from ...