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- Practice the English pronunciation of donkey sentence with real speech in context.
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- (grammar) A sentence that contains a pronoun with clear meaning (bound semantically) but whose syntactic role poses a challenge.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (grammar) A sentence that contains a pronoun with clear meaning (bound semantically) but whose syntactic role poses a challenge.
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