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A C Bowden #228532 08/22/18 01:38 AM
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"Arise, shine, for thy light has come!" Handel quoted Isaiah. (10)

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Isaiah had a son named Mahershalahashbash,and the Bible's longest word.(11)


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Word classes, sometimes called 'parts of speech', include nouns, verbs and adjectives. (12)

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Adjectives are overused by novelists who do not appreciate that 'less is more'. (13)

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More and more, these days, news anchors are guilty of using really improper grammar(14).


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Grammar runs afoul of the "We don' need no steenkin' roolz" principle, I heared tell. (15)

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"Tell me, Holmes", asked Watson, "how on earth did you deduce that Mr Llewellyn is Welsh?" (16)

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Welsh is central to the national identity of Wales, and is still spoken by many people there. (17)

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There are many Native American nations for whom their indigenous language is also central to their tribal identity (18)


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Identity is a confusing property in physics, where the same particle can seemingly be in two places at once. (19)

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