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How to analyze lightly varying senses of adjective *very*
Use of very as an adjective is (in my experience) most frequently attested in phrases like
...the very person I was looking for.
To use adjective very with the indefinite article sounds quite ...
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Is there a clear delineation between the usages of 'this' and 'that' in American English?
One of my linguistics professors speaks English as a second language, and remarked that she never knows which of the two is appropriate. Given a list of examples, all native speakers in the classroom ...
