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a
Determinative
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A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type.
Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".
a
Noun
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A is the first letter of the alphabet.
The letter "a" comes before "b".
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In some schools, an A is a very high grade.
Ron got an A on his earth science test.
dictionary
Noun
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A dictionary is a book that tells you what words mean, and how to spell them. A lot of dictionaries will also tell you about etymology (where words come from) and pronunciation (how to speak them).
You are reading an online dictionary right now.
The words in a printed dictionary are in alphabetical order.
I looked up the dictionary to find the meaning of the word business.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
English
Proper noun
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English is a language spoken by around 800 million people. The main places where English is spoken include:
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The United States of America
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The United Kingdom
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India, Pakistan, Australia and all the other countries of the old British Empire.
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The English refers to the people who live in England.
The English have spread all over the world.
English
Adjective
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Something that is English is related to England, its people or its culture.
I prefer the English accent.
I am English.
language
Noun
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A language is all the words used by a group of people, and grammar (the rules for making them into sentences). People who speak the same language can understand each other; people speaking different languages cannot understand each other.
The English language has easy grammar but difficult spelling and pronunciation.
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Language is the usage of words in a specific subject, the vocabulary of the subject.
This document is written in legal language, only lawyers can understand it.
There is a special chemistry language that you need to use when answering questions in the chemistry examinations.
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Language is the special usage of words in a passage of text.
The language in this document is very offensive and biased.
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A language refers to computer language, a group of code that tells a computer or machine what to do.
There are many programming languages out there, it really depends on what kind of software that you are trying to create.
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A language is a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ, a languet.