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southern
Adjective
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A southern place, accent, person, etc. is in, from, or about the south.
The money helps everyone from a grocer in southern Lebanon to a farmer in Tajikistan.
My grandmother moved to southern California to live with my aunt.
Her soft, southern accent reminded him of warm summer nights.
Recently, elephants have done well in southern Africa.
She remembered a summer afternoon swimming off the family compound at the southern tip of Taiwan.
Each year, millions of Mexicans cross that southern border from Mexico into the United States.
Dire Dawa is located on the southern edge of the Rift Valley at the foot of the Harrar Mountains.
Jupiter lies fairly low in the southern sky after dusk.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
northern
Adjective
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If something is northern, it is in, from, or about the north.
We couldn't go south, so we looked for a more northern route.
The birds are found from the Missouri River west to the Rocky Mountains and from southern Canada to northern Mexico.
Once the Soviet Union fell, Iran's northern borders became peaceful.
Almost every forest in the Northern Hemisphere has been logged.
Rock River runs along the northern edge of town.
dynasty
Noun
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A dynasty is a family of rulers who rule over a country for a long period of time.