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Asyndeton

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containing a series of words or clauses in close succession linked without conjunctions

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ad Antiquitatem

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tradition is better

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Ad Hominem

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Irrelevantly attack someone or thing about their argument

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Ad ignorantium

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Arguing for a position that has not been shown false

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ad Maturam

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natural stuff is better than unnatural

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Ad metum

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Fear is the primary motivator; the person uses the audience’s fear to gain support

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Ad misericordiam

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appeal to pity/ misery to gain support

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Ad novitatem

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new is better than old; appeal that something is better just because it is new

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Ad numeram

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Show that something is true by providing the number of how many people believe in it

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Ad populum

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Appeal to popular attitudes ex. dislike is injustice

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Ad verecundiam

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Appeal to Authority ex. take the opinion of the person in charge

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of one or several words

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Anaphora

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Repetition of words or phrase in a group of sentences

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anastrophe

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Rearrange the normal word order to create a new effect

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Antithesis

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position opposite ideas parallel to each other (hero, villain)

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Aporia

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Expresses uncertainty and doubt (pretended) to prove a point

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Aposiopesis

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When a sentence is purposely left unfinished

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Apostrophe

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addresses to a person who is not present or to a personified object

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Arrangement

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Concerns about how one orders their speech or writing

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Black/ white

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One or two statements must be true even if they are not

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Brachylogy

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concise or condensed form of expression

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Catachresis

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Inappropriate use of one word for another/ mixed metaphor often used deliberately

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Chiasumus

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word or grammar constructions or concepts that are repeated in reverse order

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Climax

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Mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight and parallel construction

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Composition/ division

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Projects the properties of a part of the composition

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Cum hoc ergo proctor

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with this therefore because of this

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deliberative oratory

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speech that attempts to persuade someone to do something

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Demonstrative oratory

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Used for public occasions

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Dubitation

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Expression of doubt or uncertainty

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30
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Ehtos

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establishes trustworthiness

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31
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ellipsis

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Omission of a word or short phrase easily understood in context

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32
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enallage

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The substitution of grammatically different but semantically equivalent constructions

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33
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Epiphora

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repaeating a sequince or works to give emphasis

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euphemismus

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Substituting a more favorable for a pejorative or socially delicate term

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35
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Fallacy

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Reasoning that comes to a conclusion without evidence that supports it

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36
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False equivalence

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When two events appear the same logically but are completely different

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37
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Gambler’s fallacy

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more in the past, less in the future

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38
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Genetic fallacy

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rejection of origin rather than the content

39
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hendiadys

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Expressing a single idea by two nouns instead of a noun and its qualifier. A method of amplification that adds force

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homoioptoton

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The repetition of similar case endings in adjacent words or in words in parallel position

41
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hypallage

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Shifting the application of words. Mixing the order of which words should correspond with which others

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Hyperbaton

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Inversion of the normal word order for emphasis

43
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Hyperbole

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A technique that uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect

44
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hypophora

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A figure of reasoning in which one asks and then immediately answers one’s own questions

45
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hysteron proteron

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Disorder of time. (What should be first, isn’t

46
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Ignoratio Elenchi

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appears to be refuting but is actually disapproving of something that hasn’t been said

47
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Interrogation/ Erotema

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Question to affirm or deny a point strongly

48
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Invention

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Investigates the possible means by which proofs can optionally be discovered

49
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Ironia

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Convays a meaning that is the opposite of the literal interpretation

50
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Isocolon

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succession of sentances, phares, or clauses that are equal in length

51
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Judicial Oratory

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COnsiders the justice or injustice of a charge/ accusation

52
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Litotes

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makes an affirmative statement by expressing its negative contrary, most “not” or “can’t”

53
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Loaded question

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Make an assumption when asking a question based on that assumption

54
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Logos

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Uses logic to persuade the audience

55
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Memory

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Recall of what a speaker knows to use for their speech

56
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Metaphor

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Compares one thing with another for effect

57
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Metonymy

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A word for one thing is used to refer to another related thing

58
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Middle ground

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Error in reasoning that weakens the argument

59
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No true scotsman

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defend by denying the validity of counterexamples

60
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Non causa pro causa

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Assuming a causal relation exists between two things or events

61
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Non sequitur

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Does not follow logically from what preceded it

62
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onomatopoeia

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Using or inventing a word whose sound imitates that which it names

63
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Oxymoron

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Two words or a phrase with opposite meanings to create a new meaning

64
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paraleipsis

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Stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over. A kind of irony

65
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paromoiosis

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Parallelism of sound between the words of adjacent clauses whose lengths are equal or approximate to one another

66
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paronomasia

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Using words that sound alike but that differ in meaning

67
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Pathos

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Uses emotion to persuade the audience

68
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Performance/ delivery

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How the speech is given

69
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periphrasis

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The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name

70
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Personal equivalence

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What is true must be easy to understand/ imagine

71
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Petitio Principii

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Taken for granted in the premise

72
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Pleonasm

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Use of more words than necessary

73
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pleonasm

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Use of more words than is necessary semantically

74
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Polysyndeton

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conjunctions are repeated between words in a sentance

75
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Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

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Assuming one thing is casue by another just because the other preceded it

76
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Prateritio/ Parleipsis

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Call attention to a point by “disagreeing” with it

77
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Propelsis

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When pretending to pass it over is taken to extreme

78
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proslepsis

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When paralipsis (stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over) is taken to its extreme

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Reductio as Absurdum

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Connection by deriving ab absuredity from its denial- contodictions

80
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Secundum quid et simpliciter

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confusion between unqualified and qualified forms of a sentence

81
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Sententia/gnome

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A saying embodying a striking thought

82
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Sermocinatio/ prospopoeia

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“speaker” is imaginary and is speaking

83
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Slipper slope

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Initial event will trigger another series of events with extreme outcomes

84
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Special pleading

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Argues for an exception in the rule

85
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Strawman

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Distortion of argument to attack or refute

86
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Style

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Manipulations of language and words for rhetorical speech

87
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Subiecto/ Hypophora

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Speaker/ writer raises a question and then immediately answers it

88
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Syllogism

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Deductive reasoning consists of 2 premises and a conclusion

89
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texas sharpshooter

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Look for similarities, ignore the differences

90
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Topoi

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Stock formulas that orators use to produce arguments

91
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Tu quoque/What-about-ism

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The accused turns the argument back onto the accuser ( what about you)

92
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Unfasifiability

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A theory is true/ false and cannot be contradicted by an observation

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Zeugma

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When one part of speech governs two or more other parts of a sentence

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