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The Hebrew name for the city, Yerushalayim, ends with "-ayim," a grammatical construction used for pairs of things.

Vogue suffixes such as -ism, -ology, -scope, or -wise are used by some with the freedom of a grammatical construction.

"That's not a grammatical construction you get to use every day, but there aren't many diseases where you know it will be fatal".

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Centuries of reformations and counter-reformations, heresies and schisms, crusades and intifadas, and overall bloodshed have been the consequence of differing interpretations of a certain grammatical construction or an obscure metaphor.

The locutionary act is the act of "'saying something' in the full normal sense" (1962: 94), which is the utterance of certain words with certain meanings in a certain grammatical construction, such as uttering 'I like ice' as a sentence of English.

But, if a strictly grammatical construction should be adopted, it may well be doubted whether 'machinery therein' related to anything but machine and repair shops; and it can hardly have been the intention of the legislature to limit the words, 'buildings, structures and appendages connected thereto or used therewith,' to those connected or used with such shops only.

"Post-ELSI" is an interesting grammatical construction like several similar constructions, such as post-modernism, post-feminism and post-humanism.

So when Samson pulls down the pillars of the temple, Milton describes that action with a closely related grammatical construction – four words, two of them verbs: "he tugg'd, he shook". I want you to pause just for a moment and to think about how – when we consider this sequence, how shocking that sentence is.

In this report, we investigate the neural processing of a particular, presumably grammatical, construction in sequential visual narratives conjunction to further test this aspect of VNG, and to determine whether such processing is modulated by participants' experience with comics in which this construction is more or less prevalent.

Verbs play a pivotal role in the grammatical construction of sentences.

She uses the occasional babyish grammatical construction and a childlike sense of symbolism, including repeated invocations of Snow White and her abandonment in the forest by an evil stepmother queen.

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