abbreviation
abbreviation
/əˌbɹiviˈeɪʃən/
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Using the same abbreviation is confusing.
It's not an abbreviation we use.
So that's our little abbreviation there.
active voice
active voice
/ˈæktɪv vˈɔɪs/
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Now imagine that he had followed the advice to convert the passage to the active voice.
They say, for example: "Use the active voice.
How can we change the sentence to be active voice?
adverbial
adverbial
/ædˈvɝbiəɫ/
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This style of inversion is more common in speech with words like here, and there and small adverbials.
So this is a noun phrase, an adjective phrase and an adverbial phrase.
apostrophe
apostrophe
/əˈpɑstɹəˌfi/
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So in this example, this apostrophe is OK.
And it also knows that this apostrophe is just a character.
But there was a big controversy and some people said it should be D apostrophe O H.
article
article
/ˈɑɹtəkəɫ/, /ˈɑɹtɪkəɫ/
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She saw no alternatives until she read a magazine article about Jesse Sullivan and his bionic arm.
And I try to write articles. '
I'm behind on Patreon stuff again because I have to write articles but it takes forever.
auxiliary verb
auxiliary verb
/ɔːksˈɪliəɹi vˈɜːb/
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When there's no auxiliary verb, we make a question using 'do'.
They are constructed by using an auxiliary verb from the main verb phrase and a pronoun referring to the subject.
Imperatives have no auxiliary verb.
clause
clause
/ˈkɫɔz/
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The school declined to comment to CNBC, citing a confidentiality clause.
But the contracts clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from impairing the obligation of contracts.
The Constitution also contains a fugitive slave clause requiring any escaped slave to be returned to their master.
conjunction
conjunction
/kənˈdʒəŋkʃən/
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It was created by Congress in 1968 in conjunction with AT&T in a public private partnership.
Photoresists aren’t very useful by themselves, but are super powerful when used in conjunction with a photomask.
But a semicolon can replace a conjunction to shorten a sentence or to give it some variety.
contraction
contraction
/kənˈtɹækʃən/
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But a growth moderation does not necessarily equal a growth contraction or a recession.
But the contraction wasn't formally announced until December 2008.
and they kind of have another contraction.
determiner
determiner
/dɪtˈɜːmɪnɚ/
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This stands in stark contrast to the picture we get from Camus, who said that we are all the determiners of the value of our own lives.
Determiners help us figure out which specific instance of a specific noun we're talking about.
There's one theory of syntax that actually argues there are determiner phrases as well as noun phrases.
exclamation mark
exclamation mark
/ɛksklɐmˈeɪʃən mˈɑːɹk/
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He's flagged it up as a super high priority with two exclamation marks.
And then, you see this little exclamation mark?
So I finally decide to go with "hey," exclamation mark.
grammatical
grammatical
/ɡɹəˈmætəkəɫ/, /ɡɹəˈmætɪkəɫ/
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Typos and grammatical errors don’t.
Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti.
Language is full of such grammatical promises, like either-ors or if-thens.

imperative verb
imperative verb
/ɪmpˈɛɹətˌɪv vˈɜːb/
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intonation
intonation
/ˌɪntəˈneɪʃən/
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This is known as intonation instead of tone.
My intonation drops off, I drop energy.
This process is called melodic intonation therapy.
intransitive verb
intransitive verb
/ɪntɹˈænsɪtˌɪv vˈɜːb/
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But in this case, "arise" is an intransitive verb.
transitive verb
transitive verb
/tɹˈænsɪtˌɪv vˈɜːb/
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Well, here's the example of transitive verb: "I love".
part of speech
part of speech
/pˈɑːɹt ʌv spˈiːtʃ/
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Be confident with the parts of speech and build on them and pay particular attention to tenses.
Syllables are stressed differently and it's actually a really important part of speech
Number one are parts of speech.
passive voice
passive voice
/pˈæsɪv vˈɔɪs/
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Well another contributor to zombie prose, is the passive voice.
Yes, it uses the passive voice to advise against the passive voice.
The mainstream conversation about the subject uses passive voice all over the place.
period
period
/ˈpɪɹiəd/
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The market value rises to $500,000 over a 5-year period.
There's no periods, there's no commas, it's too long.
But first period started, I had theater, I think it was about 30 minutes or so
prefix
prefix
/ˈpɹifɪks/
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And, you know, the word 'dis-', the prefix...
And if they point toward opposite faces of the ring, we add the prefix trans-.
Prop is our prefix.
suffix
suffix
/ˈsəfɪks/
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So it actually, the suffix of the word will involve the alcohol part.
I had them agree with the nouns in person and number and also had these suffixes for derivation.
And we know that they are smaller pipes because of the diminutive suffix, "-ette."
reflexive
reflexive
/ɹəˈfɫɛksɪv/
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So online learning just wasn't a reflexive component to how I learned over my career.
Finally, the personal pronoun them becomes the reflexive pronoun, themselves.
But, when do you use reflexive pronouns?
relative
relative
/ˈɹɛɫətɪv/
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They live together in relative harmony, producing 80 percent of the world's opals.
That gives me the encouragement that this is economic today relative to mining.
So we are in relative terms, we are better off.
to quote
to quote
/ˈkwoʊt/
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And then a couple of days later or the next day I quote tweeted it
You're gonna quote me, yes, that's not how that works.
[2] Quoted in Jackson J. Spielvogel, Western Civilization 7th ed.
proper noun
proper noun
/pɹˈɑːpɚ nˈaʊn/
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- I think this is a proper noun.
You can use a proper noun or a pronoun.
So common nouns and proper nouns refer to people, places, things, ideas.
common noun
common noun
/kˈɑːmən nˈaʊn/
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Let’s, for example, take a common noun, ‘cup’.
So common nouns and proper nouns refer to people, places, things, ideas.
That's a common noun.
quotation mark
quotation mark
/kwoʊtˈeɪʃən mˈɑːɹk/
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Notice the quotation marks in the air.
Because I start my string with a single quotation mark.
So it says, look let's not end the string until we get to another single quotation mark.
object
object
/ˈɑbdʒɛkt/, /əbˈdʒɛkt/
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Soon after, lenses to help people see distant objects became common.
So, you know those videos about cakes that look like actual objects.
Not an object for you to observe.
abstract noun
abstract noun
/ˈæbstɹækt nˈaʊn/
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Now let's move on to abstract nouns.
They're abstract nouns in English.
Remember the abstract noun we talked about a few minutes ago.
accent
accent
/ˈækˌsɛnt/, /əkˈsɛnt/
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Alright, what's their stance on people with deaf accents and speech impediments?
There were a few people it couldn't understand because of deep accents, but...
" This is my Southern accent coming out right now.
