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periphrastic sentence examples

  • Periphrastic construction using a prepositional phrase beginning with " of " : " the door of the house " .
  • Periphrastic forms in written registers.
  • Periphrastic type.
  • Periphrastic comparatives occur in writing than in speech whereas in speech the reverse is true.
  • Periphrastic superlatives also greatly outnumber the inflectional superlatives from the late middle english period onwards.
  • Periphrastic formation.

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