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What Is a Word?

What Is a Word? Words are the fundamental building blocks for languages. They represent the smallest unit of speech to have some conventional agreed meaning among a group of speakers of a language and to which other grammatical rules of the language can be applied. This is a practical definition, as linguists do not have […]

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What Is Grammar?

What Is Grammar? Grammar describes where we put words in a sentence (the word order) and what we do to those words so that they convey meaning accurately. How does word order work? For instance – and let’s take a stupid example to illustrate – let’s say we have the words ‘dog’ ‘fish’ and ‘eat.’

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