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please
Interjection
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We say "please" when we want to ask someone politely to do something.
Pass the salt, please.
please
Verb
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Someone pleases someone else when they do what that person likes or wants.
Giving her these flowers will please her.
leave
Verb
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When you leave a place, you go away from it.
I left the building.
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Something you leave remains where it was.
Two cakes are left.
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.
message
Noun
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A message is information that is sent between living things and is sent from one person to the other. There are some types of message, like phone message and subliminal message.
On his desk there was a message from Jack to call home.
Can you give Joan the message that I called?
message
Verb
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If you message someone, you send them a note or letter or e-mail; you message them.
Can you please message me the directions?
after
Preposition
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Later in time.
He came home after Jane did.
The doctor came after the patient had died.
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.
beep
Verb
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If something beeps, it makes a short high-pitched sound; it is a sound that sounds like "beep".
He is an impatient driver. He kept beeping at the car in front of him.
beep
Noun
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A beep is a short high-pitched sound that sounds like "beep".