Collins Cobuild

cover. …the shop that I went into.
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92
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question
a sentence which normally has the verb in front of the subject,
and which is used to ask someone about something; eg Have you any
money?
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10
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11
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58
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75
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question  tag
 an  auxiliary  or  modal  with  a  pronoun,  which  is  used  to
turn a statement into a question. eg He’s very friendly, isn’t he?… I can
come, can’t I?
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7
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8
reason  clause
 a  subordinate  clause,  usually  introduced  by  ‘because’,
‘since’, or ‘as’, which is used to explain why something happens or is
done; eg Since you’re here, we’ll start.
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97
reciprocal  verb
 a  verb  which  describes  an  action  which  involves  two
people doing the same thing to each other; eg I met you at the dance…
We’ve met one another before… They met in the street.
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reflexive  pronoun
 a  pronoun  ending  in  ‘–self’  or  ‘–selves’,  such  as
‘myself’ or ‘themselves’, which you use as the object of a verb when
you  want  to  say  that  the  object  is  the  same  person  or  thing  as  the
subject of the verb in the same clause; eg He hurt himself.
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reflexive verb
a verb which is normally used with a reflexive pronoun

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as object; eg He contented himself with the thought that he had the only
set of keys to the car.
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53
regular verb
a verb that has four forms, and follows the normal rules.
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3