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... normally take plural verbs. See further under agreement section 4. totaled or totalled Whether to double or not to double the l is discussed at -l/-ll toto See in toto. tour de force This French phrase ... main title, and option (a) for the subtitle, as in: The Life and Times of the English Language: the marvellous history of the English tongue The use of option (a) for...

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... simply appear at the top of the column. (Note that the figures in the column may not add up to exactly 100 percent, and the total at the bottom should be left as 99.4% or 100 .2%, not rounded off.) When ... passed. past tense Most English verbs show whether the action they refer to happened in the past, rather than the present or some indefinite time in the future. T...

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... about them for readers in other parts of the English- speaking world would do well to use immigrant rather than migrant, to ensure being properly understood. mileage or milage The rstofthese spellings ... provider of the mortgage if the owner repays the loan on time, and “dead” to the owner if he cannot. The mortgagor executes the “dead pledge” one way or the other. mo...

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... italicised everywhere in the English- speaking world. In the past, editors were enjoined to put the v. separating the names in roman, but both the Australian Government Style Manual and the Chicago Manual put their ... the sixteenth century on, centuries before the first reference to the jaw’s harp in Grove’s Dictionary. The Jewish element is built into the Englis...

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... communicating than in overwhelming their readers with long words. Whether they aim to impress or to cover their tracks, what they offer the reader is verbal fog: The departmental reaction to the municipal government ... as the main verb: They’re going to go to the races. Another sign that going to has made it as an auxiliary is the fact that the larger dictionaries l...

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... “and the rest” or “and the others”, implying a known set of items which might be used to complete the list preceding it. It relieves the writer of the need to list them, and calls on the reader to ... by about 4:1. The Australian Oxford (2004) 291 ellipsis a) They took glasses from the bar and [they took] knives and forks from the tables. b) They said [that] no-one w...

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... are set together as one, usually because the second is strongly related to the first. See for example: The news of the proposed devaluation got out; there was an immediate run on the stock exchange. In ... taxi, and the visitors did the same. Note that there are no overtones of commercialese or legalese in such usage; same is in fact one of the cohesive devices of standard...

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... including: here/there hence/thence now/then thus In modern English the pairs of demonstratives (i.e. this/that, these/those) express the notion of being either closer to, or further from the writer/speaker. ... maqabir. The confusion led to the dropping of the acute accent from the word macabre, and to the spelling macaber found occasionally in American English. (See f...

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... parenthesis, the point to check is whether the parenthesis forms part or all of the sentence. If it is the whole sentence, the full stop goes inside; if the parenthesis is only the last part of the ... documentation. The Australian Government Style Manual endorses their use, except where the chronology or priority of the items needs to be made specific. 106 axis...

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... belong to this group. The group of absolute adjectives is in fact very 11 Preface to The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage Since the first publication of The Cambridge Australian English ... boldfaced to draw attention to strategic points. Words related to the headword(s) or derived from them are set in italics, as are all examples. xv The Cam...

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