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Literature

Of or pertaining to the art of writing in any form or style, most especially published works.

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adverb

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a word that gives extra meaning to a verb, an adjective, another adverb or a whole sentence e.g. I really enjoyed the course, She’s really nice, He works really slowly, Really, ...

coherence

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the underlying logical connectedness of a text, whereby concepts and relationships are relevant to each other and it is possible to make plausible inferences about underlying ...

verb tense

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the form of the verb that indicates time. English verbs have three forms: • Present tense. • Past tense. • Future form. Present and past tenses can be simple or ...

phoneme

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the smallest meaningful unit of sound in a word. There are approximately 44 phonemes in English (the number varies depending on the accent). A phoneme may have variant ...

character

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A person in a story. A character is one of the essential elements of storytellinng. There are different types of characters in literature, each with different function in the ...

Typology of dictionaries

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Typology of dictionaries - the classification of types of dictionaries, phrasebooks, and encyclopedias The type of a separate dictionary is determined by the basic information, ...

Thesaurus

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THesaurus - normal (intelligible and translation) dictionary Dictionaries are considered a thesaurus, where all the words happen to be, meeting in the given language even though ...