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Sentences with CLITIC

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"In linguistics, a clitic is a word or morpheme that is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent on another word or phrase."
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"In the sentence 'She's gone' the word 's is a clitic."
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"A clitic is typically unstressed and has a weaker accent than the main word."
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"Common clitic examples include pronouns like 'it' and 'them'."
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"The word 'n't' in 'don't' is a clitic."
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"In the phrase 'I'm going', the 'm' in 'I'm' is a clitic."
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"In many languages, clitics attach to the word they depend on."
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"Some clitics can move within a sentence and attach to different words."
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"The study of clitics is an important part of syntactic analysis."
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