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	Sentence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The sentence issued by the Appeal court of highest admitted degree immediately becomes the definitive sentence, as well as the sentence issued in minor degrees that is not resisted by the condemned or by the accusator (or is not resisted within a given time).
		Sentences are in many systems a source of law, as an authoritative interpretation of the law in front of concrete cases, thus quite as an extension of the ordinary formal documental system.
		The sentence is generally issued by the judge in the name of (or on the behalf of) the superior authority of the State.
	www.theezine.net /s/sentence.html (795 words)

	Sentence
		Cleft sentence A cleft sentence is a way of focusing on a particular part of a sentence.
		Sentence Sentence, derived from Latin sententia (perception, in the subjective sense of how one feels reality is), has...
		Sentence case Sentence case in a general sense describes the way that acronyms etc.) There are various other forms of se...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/sentence.html (149 words)

	English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The main assigned characteristic of the English language is that the traditional Latin pronounciation of the letters was abandoned and replaced by a different alphabet pronounciation.
		Most of the words in the English language were made up by the Benedictines and grammarians in their scriptoria, some later evolved from the words these linguists invented.
		In my English dictionary I will show how a large number of English words were formulaically assembled by agglutinating the first syllables of Basque words, mostly with the vowel-interlocking formula.
	www.islandnet.com /~edonon/english.htm (1897 words)

	English Literary Criticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		English poetry was about to wake from the long night that lies between the age of Chaucer and the age of Shakespeare.
		The exaggerations of the heroic drama are the exaggerations of the metaphysical poets transferred from the study to the stage; with the extravagance deepened, as was natural, by the glare of their new surroundings.
		It may be said—an English critic of the eighteenth century would undoubtedly have said—that these, after all, are but methods; better, possibly, than other methods; but still no more than means to an end— the eternal end of criticism, which is to appraise and to classify.
	www.blackmask.com /books103c/nglsh.htm (20508 words)

	Longest
		List of longest movies in history This is a list of the some of the longest movies ever released.
		List of longest rivers This is a List of the longest rivers in the world by decreasing order.
		Longest word in English There are endless debates over what is the longest word in the Methionylglutaminy...serine (q.v....
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	Prague Czech-English Dependency Treebank
		Sentences of the Czech translation were automatically morphologically annotated and parsed into two levels (analytical and tectogrammatical) of dependency structures introduced in the theory of Functional Generative Description and closely related to the project of
		A heldout (development and evaluation) set of 515 sentence pairs was selected and manually annotated on tectogrammatical level in both Czech and English; for the purposes of quantitative evaluation this set has been retranslated from Czech to English by 4 different translation companies.
		While the morphological annotation of the English part is simply taken over from the Penn Treebank, the analytical and tectogrammatical markups of the English part of the corpus are obtained by two independent procedures transforming the phrase-structure trees into dependency ones.
	ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz /pcedt/doc/PCEDT_body.html (3194 words)

	Longest Sentences
		Following are some of the sentences you wrote in class two weeks ago.
		By the way, the longest closest-to-completely correct sentence in the Tuesday group had 204 words.
		In the Wednesday group, the longest completely correct sentence had 162 words and the longest very-nearly-correct sentence had 273 words.
	www.uni-giessen.de /~ga1047/writing1/writinglongsentences.html (157 words)

	Longest Sentence in Literature
		At best, it is the longest sentence in French literature, though I can't confirm that.
		Traditionally, the longest sentence in English Literature has been said to be a sentence in Ullyses by James Joyce, which clocks in at 4,391 words.
		Hrabal's 'novel sentence' is 128 pages long, though I have been unable to find an exact word count.
	www.gavroche.org /vhugo/sentence.shtml (378 words)

	English Composition 1: Sentence Euphony
		So if you coordinate within a conjunction, try compose the sentence so that the longest member of the series is the last.
		Notice that the correlative conjunctions helps to improve the readability of the second sentence, even though the sentence is already using the first principle of coordination.
		Sentences should move toward strength; ending with a prepositions dilutes that strength.
	papyr.com /hypertextbooks/comp1/euphony.htm (1362 words)

	English:Adverbs - Wikibooks
		Conjunctive adverbs are those which perform the office of conjunctions, and serve to connect sentences, as well as to express some circumstance of time, place, degree, or the like.
		The pronominal compounds; herein, therein, wherein, andc.; in which the former term is a substitute, and virtually governed by the enclitic particle.
		A part of the text in this article, was taken from the public domain English grammar "The Grammar of English Grammars" by Goold Brown, 1851.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/English:Adverbs (905 words)

	English Language Facts
		The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
		The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
		There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
	www.coopsjokes.com /amz/amzlang.htm (438 words)

	The Chemist's English
		Neither English is "wrong": the main thing is that, if you happen to prefer British spelling and usage (defence vs. defense, colour vs. color, synthesise vs. synthesize), usage (pavement vs. sidewalk, solicitor vs. lawyer), and punctuation ("Smith, Jones and Brown, Solicitors" vs. "Cohen, Levy, and Friedman, Attorneys at Law") you should consistently stick with it.
		Schoenfeld worked in an "Oxford English" environment, he offers persuasive arguments in Section 15.3 as to why the "American" endings "-ize" and "-or" are etymologically more correct than their "Oxford" counterparts "-ise" and "-our".
		For Chemist's English there exists a rough rule of thumb: with is used for simple instruments or techniques, by for more complex ones, and by means of for yet more elaborate and/or abstruse ones.
	theochem.weizmann.ac.il /~comartin/schoenfeld.html (2973 words)

	Longest Words - AskTheBrain.com
		The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
		One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowing multiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.
		The longest one-syllable word in the english language is "screeched.
	www.askthebrain.com /longest_word-.html (270 words)

	English language trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But it's sometimes hard to distinguish the precise direction of a violent rush, and the two soon came to be used as synonyms, a usage that has continued for at least the last 400 years.
		English is the most widespread language in the world and is more widely spoken and written than any other language.
		People who count English as their mother tongue make up less than 10% of the world's population, but possess over 30% of the world's economic power.
	www.dyana.info /Language/language.htm (1844 words)

	English Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Complete each of the following sentences by filling in the blank with the subjective case of the personal pronoun indicated in brackets, followed by the form of the Simple Present of the verb to be which agrees with the pronoun.
		For each sentence, use the word or words given in brackets as the second part of the comparison.
		Following the model of the examples, complete the rest of the sentences, indicating which is the youngest, shortest, heaviest, lightest, richest, and poorest child in the group.
	www.dbis.ns.ca /~stirling/gramex22.html (1218 words)

	NBS History
		The meeting was an outgrowth of an informal gathering in St. Louis at the 1979 ANA Convention when approximately a dozen bibliomaniacs gathered for a dinner and discussed forming an organization for numismatic book and catalog collectors.
		With these somewhat redundant sentences, an unsigned article on page 2712 of the November, 1980 issue of The Numismatist announced the birth of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS).
		Charlie's time in the editor's chair, at nearly four years the longest in the history of the publication, was memorable for both its quality and its controversy - in the latter sense, at least, a throwback to the publication's early years.
	www.coinbooks.org /club_nbs_asylum_history.html (4407 words)

	BEST Longest Palindrome in English Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The longest English single-word palindrome in common use is redivider.
		...the longest palindrome appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary; KINNIKINNIK is the longest in W3.
		The longest one-word palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary is "tattarrattat...
	www.captivatingandfree.info /dictionary/Longest-Palindrome-in-English-Dictionary.html (228 words)

	Trivia: The Longest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The longest man-made structure is the Great Wall of China, which stretches for 4,000 miles.
		The longest snake is the reticulated python, which can reach lengths of 41 feet.
		The longest sentence in English literature is spoken by what character in what novel by which author?
	www-tech.mit.edu /V117/N46/trivia.46c.html (157 words)

	Most Difficult Sentence in English Language
		The Longest most complex sentence in the written English language is in The Rotters' Club By Johnathan Coe consitsting of 13,955 words; that is the approximate length of your average recreational novel.
		This is the longest chemical term in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.).
		It is the longest word in the Macquarie Dictionary and is also in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.).
	www.englishforums.com /English/MostDifficultSentenceEnglish-Language/mlnx/Post.htm#62370 (990 words)

	Longest word in the English language?
		Hydrodynamics is the longest word in the world, those who can't spell it are the most stupest people.
		The longest word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis which has 45 letters.
		I know it's not in English (It's in Maori) and is the name of a hill.
	www.englishforums.com /English/LongestWordEnglishLanguage/jh/Post.htm#160 (664 words)

	English Usage Archives Page
		English speakers lob in 'um' before a long pause and 'uh' in front of a brief hiatus, the analysis revealed.
		At the core of this proposal are two corpora of Modern British English, both founded at the Survey of English Usage (SEU) at University College London: the London-Lund Corpus (LLC), compiled in the 1960s, and the British Component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB), compiled in the 1990s.
		In 1955, Nancy Mitford wrote her essay on the English aristocracy (see her fantastically elitist collection, A Talent to Annoy; average price $20 on Alibris.com), in which she contends that since the upper classes "are neither cleaner, richer, nor better educated than anybody else," it is only through usage that they distinguish themselves.
	www.yaelf.com /archives.shtml (17598 words)

	English teaching diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The longest it has ever taken me to take a class of individuals and make them feel confident in me and comfortable with each other — to feel excited and interested — is a week.
		She seems to have absolutely no concept that other students have needs as well as her, and because she is the most advanced student she feels she has a right to dominate the class.
		My favourite sentence that she has come out with so far is that “most people study English to pass exams.” Passing the exam is her personal mantra.
	www.onestopenglish.com /english_teacher_diary/davidC_rapport.htm (1515 words)

	English Section
		Inject my vitamin shot.â After saying this sentence the prisoner sleeps, and after minutes again a report of severe illness is given to the chief warden.
		Born in 1884, Taju'l Saltaneh was the daughter of Nasser-din Shah, the longest reigning Qajar monarch.
		Born in 1914, âTaj ol Saltanehâ was the daughter of âNasser-ed-Din Shahâ, the longest reigning Qajar monarch.
	englishsection.blogspot.com (9514 words)

	Old English
		In this sentence, the only obvious choices for the accusative, great battles and Britons both fall in the dative.
		Words that have been bracketed and italicized are added entirely, while words that are only bracketed generally symbolize my translation from a nameless ‘he’ to a definitive person or place.
		However, while confined to Old English text, it is much less accessible, and the cultural background of people who would find it interesting to study would be perhaps less broad.
	www.geocities.com /perralu/oldenglish.html (1016 words)

	:::~Imported~English~Conformity~::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Well, today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and so it follows that I present another fact-tastic top ten of super simple summer summery summary of summer solstice facts...
		This year, however, it seems that they've gone and misplaced 4 days from their calendar, as they are celebrating summer solstice on June 25th, not June 21st.
		The earliest sunrise of the year occurs on June 14th, the longest day occurs on June 21 and the latest sunset happens on June 28.
	englishimport.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_englishimport_archive.html (3796 words)

	sentence structure test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		English Communication : Sentence Structure Mixed-up Sentence Exercise 1,.
		Quia - Identifying Sentence Structure [cs][frag][ro] Errors in...
		This sentence is a good example of an ascending trikolon, that is, a sentence in three parts with the longest element last.
	structure.11all.info /sentence-structure-test (498 words)

	Lexica English Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lexica English Online (LEO) was a project set up by IET, with assistance from the Language Units of the Universities of Surrey, Bristol and Bath.
		There is a large potential take-up of online English teaching in the Far East, but there are considerable technical and cultural barriers to the successful study of EAP through this medium.
		The dual prospect of using the internet and communicating in English was a great attraction to these teachers and learners, but many had had little experience of using the medium for anything other than informal email exchanges.
	iet.open.ac.uk /pp/r.goodfellow/leoreport00.htm (4398 words)

	English 333
		The Department of English expects students in this course to use the WSU library buildings and materials in a responsible manner.
		However, if you are quoting a sentence or phrase which ends with a question mark or exclamation mark treat it like this: "'Help!' he shouted" (7).
		Before turning in your paper, you would be wise to consult "Common Errors in English" at , where you will find explained the errors I most commonly mark off for on student papers.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/333syllabus.html (4524 words)

	JR On WSDR--English Fans Only (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There is a seven letter word in English that contains eleven words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, I, therein, herein.
		Stewardesses is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.
		Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.
	www.essex1.com /people/jrfrienz/english.html (268 words)

	The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
		Set-off quotations of poetry are often visually centered on the page (the rule of thumb is to center the longest line and work from that, but make sure to keep at least a quarter-inch left indent).
		Citations for set-off quotations of poetry are dropped to the first line after the quotation and, usually, centered on the rightmost letter of the longest line of verse, though they may also be flush right or indented a uniform distance from the right margin.
		If a sentence has several cited texts, it is generally wise to gather the citations in one note at the end of the sentence.
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