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How to pronounce “expletive”
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Pronunciation guide for expletive
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of expletive with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself
My anger had me rehearsing glorious, expletive-filled speeches
- Definition summary
- Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
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How to pronounce expletive
The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself
My anger had me rehearsing glorious, expletive-filled speeches
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “expletive”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
- Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
- [Noun]
- A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
- (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
- (linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning (such as fuckin in "there's no fuckin way he's gonna get away with it").
- An obscene or otherwise offensive interjection (such as shit, fuck, or damn it).
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