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2. Snakes and ladders - Wikipedia

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   Snakes and ladders is a board game for two or more players regarded today as a worldwide classic. [ 1] The game originated in ancient India as Moksha Patam, and was brought to the United Kingdom in the 1890s. It is played on a game board with numbered, gridded squares. A number of "ladders" and "snakes" are pictured on the board, each ...

3. Part of speech - Wikipedia

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   Part of speech. In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech ( abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class[ 1] or grammatical category[ 2]) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to the same part of speech generally display similar syntactic ...

4. 2009 East Asian Games opening ceremony - Wikipedia

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   Donald Tsang then gave a speech. It was the first large scale international games ever hosted in Hong Kong. It was also the largest East Asian Games. Timothy Fok then followed up with a speech. They both gave their speech first in English, then in Cantonese. State Councillor Liu Yandong then opened the games up with a statement in Mandarin. The ...

5. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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   A part of speech is provided for most of the words, but part-of-speech categories vary between analyses, and not all possibilities are listed. For example, "I" may be a pronoun or a Roman numeral; "to" may be a preposition or an infinitive marker; "time" may be a noun or a verb.

6. Noun - Wikipedia

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   A noun may serve as an object or subject within a phrase, clause, or sentence. [ 1][ note 1] In linguistics, nouns constitute a lexical category ( part of speech) defined according to how its members combine with members of other lexical categories. The syntactic occurrence of nouns differs among languages. In English, prototypical nouns are ...

7. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. March 1967. " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream " is a post-apocalyptic science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction . The story is set against the backdrop of World War III, where a sentient supercomputer named AM, born from the ...

8. Parallelism (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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   Parallelism is a rhetorical device that compounds words or phrases that have equivalent meanings so as to create a definite pattern. This structure is particularly effective when "specifying or enumerating pairs or series of like things". [ 1] A scheme of balance, parallelism represents "one of the basic principles of grammar and rhetoric".

9. Part-of-speech tagging - Wikipedia

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   Part-of-speech tagging. In corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging ( POS tagging or PoS tagging or POST ), also called grammatical tagging is the process of marking up a word in a text (corpus) as corresponding to a particular part of speech, [ 1] based on both its definition and its context . A simplified form of this is commonly taught to ...