E-Prime

Rarity: Common

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Work

Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

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What Wikipedia says

E-Prime (short for English-Prime or English Prime, sometimes É or E′) denotes a restricted form of English in which authors avoid all forms of the verb to be.

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