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| Definition - The agreement of words in number, person, gender, etc. |
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Example - Bob went home. He went to his own home. (To be in concord, the pronouns He and him must both be in the third person). |
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Etymology - The term derives from the Latin concordia, agreement or union; it literally means "hearts together" (from com-, together + cor, heart). |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation is from 1530: "The latines have the concordes of grammar." (Jehan Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Introd. 38 ) |
