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The example compared a declarative sentence and an idiom.

This study sounds like the old Norman nonsense that turned perfectly good Anglo-Saxon words into the vulgar, lower-class vocabulary where it concerns nouns and verbs. Regarding articles it is obvious since articles are combinatory by definition, and the "finding" does not exclude "the," "la" etc also being short for convenience's sake.



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