The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 8 potx

... a mistake to bypass the standard English plural for a word that was coined in English anyway. Among the citations in the Australian National Dictionary (1 988 ) there is only one for platypi from the ... 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. Thi...

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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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... 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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... 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 ... of the answer is that the first was founded in 185 1, the second in the 189 0s, and during this half century the connotations of the name changed radically. Scotch wa...

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... The second is however recorded in Webster’s (1 986 ) and the Oxford Dictionary (1 989 ) as an alternative, and quite a few of the Oxford citations show it, whether they refer to the shoe, or to the ... 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 mil...

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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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... “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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... have had their day. The Romans located historical events in relation to the founding of their city in 753 BC. They gave years with the suffix AUC, which to them meant ab urbe condita “from the city’s founding”, ... 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 clo...

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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 ... costume when they venture into the surf. (Others less formal would call it their “swimmers”, “bathers”, “togs” or “cozzie”.) In the US meanwhile, bathe refers to swimmin...

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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 ... the Australian National Dictionary (1 988 ) has citations for the singular form going backto the first half of the nineteenth century, and it has always bee...

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