7/25/2019 Grammarly http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/grammarly 1/2 ”1”“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. ”2” A pangram sentence is one that contains every letter in the language. For example, the sentence, “The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog is a pangram! ”3”Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious !"reath!# is $%& the longest 'ord in English. This extra long word "that approximately means “fantastic# was invented for a movie, and it became a word in the dictionary! $hat you probably didn%t know is that there is a word that is longer & yes longer & than this one! Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling ash and dust! 'o ahead and try pronouncing that( ”(”&here are “ghost 'ords” that mean nothing. )elieve it or not, there are some words that appeared in the dictionary due to printing errors and meant nothing! The word “dord appeared in the dictionary for eight years in the mid*+th century! -t became known as a “ghost word! ”)”&he shortest* oldest* and most commonly used 'ord is “I.” .edieval manuscripts reveal that some of the oldest words in /nglish were “-, “we, “two, and “three! This makes “- one of the shortest and oldest words in the /nglish language! -t is also the most commonly used word in /nglish conversations! ”+”A ne' 'ord is added to the dictionary every t'o hours. )etween now and your next meal, a new word will be put into the dictionary! 0uring the course of the year, almost 1 new words are added( 2o, the next time you try to catch the attention of the dissertation committee, try adding some new words to your project! ”,”&here-s a name for 'ords that 'e repeat often. $ords we always use even though they add no meaning or value to the sentence are called crutch words! For example, in the sentence “Then - was like, 3.', then like, he went there, and

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”1”“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English

language.

”2” A pangram sentence is one that contains every letter inthe language.

For example, the sentence, “The quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog is a pangram!

”3”Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious !"reath!# is $%& the

longest 'ord in English.

This extra long word "that approximately means “fantastic# was invented for a movie, and it

became a word in the dictionary! $hat you probably didn%t know is that there is a word that islonger & yes longer & than this one! Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a type

of lung disease caused by inhaling ash and dust! 'o ahead and try pronouncing that(

”(”&here are “ghost 'ords” that mean nothing.

)elieve it or not, there are some words that appeared in the dictionary due to printing errors andmeant nothing! The word “dord appeared in the dictionary for eight years in the mid*+th

century! -t became known as a “ghost word!

”)”&he shortest* oldest* and most commonly used 'ord is“I.”

.edieval manuscripts reveal that some of the oldest words in /nglish were “-, “we, “two, and

“three! This makes “- one of the shortest and oldest words in the /nglish language! -t is also

the most commonly used word in /nglish conversations!

”+”A ne' 'ord is added to the dictionary every t'o hours.

)etween now and your next meal, a new word will be put into the dictionary! 0uring the course

of the year, almost 1 new words are added( 2o, the next time you try to catch the attention ofthe dissertation committee, try adding some new words to your project!

”,”&here-s a name for 'ords that 'e repeat often.

$ords we always use even though they add no meaning or value to the sentence are called crutch

words! For example, in the sentence “Then - was like, 3.', then like, he went there, and

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