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  2. Linguistic prescription - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Linguistic prescription, also called prescriptivism or prescriptive grammar, is the establishment of rules defining preferred usage of language. [ 1][ 2] These rules may address such linguistic aspects as spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Sometimes informed by linguistic purism, [ 3] such normative ...

  3. Hindustani declension - Wikipedia

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    e. Hindi-Urdu, also known as Hindustani, has three noun cases (nominative, oblique, and vocative) [ 1][ 2] and five pronoun cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique). The oblique case in pronouns has three subdivisions: Regular, Ergative, and Genitive. There are eight case-marking postpositions in Hindi and out of those ...

  4. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani distinguishes two genders (masculine and feminine), two noun types ( count and non-count), two numbers (singular and plural), and three cases ( nominative, oblique, and vocative ). [ 7] Nouns may be further divided into two classes based on declension, called type-I, type-II, and type-III. The basic difference between the two ...

  5. Pros and Cons (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Pros and Cons. (TV series) Pros and Cons is an American crime drama television series that ran on ABC from September 26, 1991 to January 2, 1992, in the United States during the 1991–92 television season. It is a revamped, more lighthearted version of Gabriel's Fire, which aired on ABC the previous season. [1]

  6. Standardized test - Wikipedia

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    Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a predetermined, standard manner. [ 1] Any test in which the same test is given in the same manner to all test takers, and graded in the same manner for everyone, is a standardized test.

  7. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    These abbreviations are, however, commonly used as the basis for glosses for symmetrical voicesystems (formerly called 'trigger' agreement, and by some still 'focus' (misleadingly, as it is not grammatical focus), such as AV(agent voice), BF(beneficiary 'focus'), LT(locative 'trigger').

  8. English usage controversies - Wikipedia

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    e. In the English language, there are grammatical constructions that many native speakers use unquestioningly yet certain writers call incorrect. Differences of usage or opinion may stem from differences between formal and informal speech and other matters of register, differences among dialects (whether regional, class-based, or other), and so ...

  9. Audio-lingual method - Wikipedia

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    The audio-lingual method or Army Method is a method used in teaching foreign languages. It is based on behaviorist theory, which postulates that certain traits of living things, and in this case humans, could be trained through a system of reinforcement. The correct use of a trait would receive positive feedback while incorrect use of that ...