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a figure of speech which shows an apparent contradiction or disagreement between two words, in which the contradictory words are next to each other in the sentence, e.g. It is an open secret that they are in love.
the reason something happens (cause), and the result of it happening (effect),e.g. in the...
a shortened version of an article, story, film or other literary text, in which only the main...
See hanging participle.
agreement of verb with subject, e.g. I love hot dogs for lunch; agreement of pronoun with noun,...
the part of the sentence that receives the action of the verb directly, e.g. in I saw the car, I...