The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 7 pot

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 7 pot

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 7 pot

... 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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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 10 pot

... 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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... armor. As pallet it was the name for a tool used by the potter to smooth the clay being worked on the wheel. In modern industries the same spelling (pallet) is the one used for the wooden platform ... 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. This i...
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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 6 pot

... 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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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 5 potx

... 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 ... association back to the eighteenth century and to Luke Hansard, who published the journals of the House of Commons from 177 4. Others give the credit...
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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 4 pot

... “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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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 9 pps

... 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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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 3 docx

... 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. ... friend”, but neither they nor the sex therapists with their talk of one’s “spousal unit” seem to hit the mark. The term “partner” is perhaps the most widely acceptab...
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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 2 pdf

... 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 ... in the US—and the name of the building which houses the US Congress—is the Capitol (with an upper case initial). It was the name of the temple of Jupiter in anci...
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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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