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... by about 4: 1. The Australian Oxford (20 04) 291 ellipsis a) They took glasses from the bar and [they took] knives and forks from the tables. b) They said [that] no-one was there. c) The woman ... “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, an...

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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) f...

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... from 1 942 to 1 945 , it became an independent republic in 1 946 . The English spoken in the Philippines has a noticeable American coloring, a legacy of the American presence in the first half of the ... 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...

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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 ... include the infinitive among the moods of English (the infinitive verb is more or less distinct in form from the others, as in to be or not to be). And some would include...

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... 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 English name for the instrument as well as one of the ... international English The idea of “international English has a lot of appeal to publishers and others who seek to market English language products to the world at...

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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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... 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. ... 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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... 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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