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The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

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Larry Trask
Age: 59 †
Born: 1944
Born: November 10
Died: 2004
Died: March 27
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Olean
New York
R. L. Trask
Robert Lawrence Trask
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