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go
Verb
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To move; to move away from a place; to move farther from the person who is talking; to move from one place to another place.
I go to the seashore every summer.
Kathy goes to the seashore every summer, too.
I went to the seashore last year.
She's gone to the seashore.
I'm going to the seashore next year.
into
Preposition
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from out to in
I opened the door and stepped into the house.
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.
black
Noun
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The darkest color; with no light; the color of the sky at night.
He stood alone in the black of the night.
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Blacks are people of a race with dark coloured skin.
There were many whites, some blacks and native Americans, and a few Asians.
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If a company is in the black, it is making a profit. (opposite = in the red)
It took a year for the restaurant to get in the black.
black
Adjective
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colored black
The black dog was the color of night.
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If someone is black, they belong to a race with dark-coloured skin.
It's still difficult for a black person to become a manager.
About 30 percent of Southfield's 80,000 citizens are black.
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About a race with dark-coloured skin.
More and more universities are offering courses in black history.
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Black coffee or tea has no milk in it.
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If something is black, it is very bad.
The day the war started was a black day in history.
black
Verb
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If you black something, you color it black.
He blacked his boots before the party.
They blacked out the windows so the light would not be seen outside.
A number of lines in the report were blacked out.
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If you black out, you stop seeing and hearing everything around you and you fall down.
After his tenth beer, he blacked out and we couldn't wake him up.