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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

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phrase structure

In linguistics: Chomsky’s grammar
…stands for Sentence, NP for Noun Phrase, VP for Verb Phrase, Det for Determiner, Aux for Auxiliary (verb), N for Noun, and V for Verb stem.
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use of pronouns

In pronoun
…that replaces a noun or noun phrase and one of eight parts of speech in English grammar. Pronouns are used to avoid repetition of nouns and can help sentences be more succinct. There are several different types of pronouns, which are described in detail below.
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