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this |
| 1. det. The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby). |
| This classroom is where I learned to read and write. |
| 2. det. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned). |
| They give the appearance of knowing what they're doing. It's this appearance that lets them get away with so much. |
| 3. det. The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned). |
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but |
| 1. prep. (obsolete, outside, Scotland) Outside of. |
| Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there. |
| 2. prep. Apart from, except (for), excluding. |
| Everyone but Father left early. |
| I like everything but that. |
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not |
| 1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. |
| Did you take out the trash? No, I did not. |
| Not knowing any better, I went ahead. |
| 2. adv. To no degree. |
| That is not red; it's orange. |
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we |
| 1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) |
| 2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) |
| 3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen |
| 4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. |
| How are we all tonight? |
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are |
| 1. v. second-person singular present of be |
| Mary, where are you going? |
| 2. v. first-person plural present of be |
| We are not coming. |
| 3. v. second-person plural present of be |
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be |
| 1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence. |
| 2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist. |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place. |
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my |
| 1. det. First-person singular possessive determiner. See. |
| 2. det. Belonging to me. |
| I can't find my book. |
| 3. det. Associated with me. |
| My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable. |
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what |
| 1. pron. (interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: (used interrogatively in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.) |
| 2. pron. (relative, nonstandard) That; which; who. |
| 3. pron. That which; those that; the thing that. |
| He knows what he wants. |
| What goes up must come down. |
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as |
| 1. adv. To such an extent or degree. |
| You’re not as tall as I am. |
| It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive. |
| 2. adv. In the manner or role specified. |
| The kidnappers released him as agreed. |
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all |
| 1. adv. (degree) intensifier. |
| It suddenly went all quiet. |
| She was all, “Whatever.” |
| 2. adv. (poetic) Entirely. |
| 3. adv. Apiece; each. |
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they |
| 1. pron. (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned. |
| Fred and Jane? They just arrived. Dogs may bark if they want to be fed. Plants wilt if they are not watered. |
| I have a car and a truck, but they are both broken. |
| 2. pron. (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but not if previously named and identified as male or female. |
| 3. pron. (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker. |
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at |
| 1. prep. In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place. |
| Caesar was at Rome; at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine; at Jim’s house |
| 2. prep. (indicating time) (Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.) |
| at six o’clock; at closing time; at night. |
| 3. prep. In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner). |
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your |
| 1. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner). |
| Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience. |
| Is this your cat? |
| 2. det. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners). |
| 3. det. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun. |
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his |
| 1. det. Belonging to him. |
| 2. det. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. |
| 3. det. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) |
| 4. det. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. |
| Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark. |
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do |
| 1. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker |
| 2. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be. |
| Do you go there often? |
| 3. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods. |
| I do not go there often. |
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her |
| 1. det. Belonging to her. |
| This is her book |
| 2. pron. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc. |
| Give it to her (after preposition) |
| He wrote her a letter (indirect object) |
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she |
| 1. pron. (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied. |
| I asked Mary, but she said that she didn’t know. |
| 2. pron. (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat. |
| She could do forty knots in good weather. |
| She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she? |
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don't |
| 1. v. do not (negative auxiliaryArnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, , Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513) |
| 2. v. (nonstandard) does not |
| 3. v. (African American Vernacular English) Used before an emphatic negative subject. |
| Don’t nobody care. |
| 4. interj. Stop!, Don't touch that! |
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do |
| 1. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker |
| 2. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be. |
| 3. v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods. |
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not |
| 1. adv. Negates the meaning of the modified verb. |
| 2. adv. To no degree. |
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so |
| 1. conj. In order that. |
| Eat your broccoli so you can have dessert. |
| 2. conj. With the result that; for that reason; therefore. |
| I was hungry so I asked if there was any more food. |
| He ate too much cake, so he fell ill. |
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just |
| 1. adj. Factually right, correct; factual. |
| It is a just assessment of the facts. |
| 2. adj. Rationally right, correct. |
| 3. adj. Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair. |
| It looks like a just solution at first glance. |
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out |
| See also individual phrasal verbs such as come out, go out, put out, take out, pull out, and so on. |
| 1. adv. Away from the inside or the centre. |
| The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat. |
| 2. adv. Away from home or one's usual place. |
| Let's eat out tonight |
