The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 1 ppt

... 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 ... for the noun, by 11 :3 in the singular and 13 3 :18 in the plural. Among Aborigines themselves the issue is debated. Some, according to the Aborigina...

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... sentences. 1 Sentence positions. The all-important first “slot” in the sentence is often referred to as the topic. The rest of the sentence is then known as the comment. In these terms the first ... united by treaty in 15 36, and Scotland joined in 17 07 to form Great Britain. The so-called “Act of Union” brought the whole of Ireland into the “United Kingdom” in 18...

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... of the answer is that the first was founded in 18 51, the second in the 18 90s, and during this half century the connotations of the name changed radically. Scotch was once the ordinary name for the ... 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 imme...

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... can simply appear at the top of the column. (Note that the figures in the column may not add up to exactly 10 0 percent, and the total at the bottom should be left as 99.4% or 10 0.2%, not rounded ... 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 (19 88) there...

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... use in the US in the 30s was to refer to new and more movable/portable instruments, such as the minipiano and the minicam(era). They were followed by the minicar (19 45) and the miniprinter (19 50). ... The second is however recorded in Webster’s (19 86) and the Oxford Dictionary (19 89) as an alternative, and quite a few of the Oxford citations show it, whether they ref...

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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 ... use since the sixteenth century, and was the spelling enshrined in the Authorised Version of the Bible (16 11) . This early use helps to explain why it is the standar...

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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 ... and the others using only an initial cap. Printers, desktop publishers and others able to vary the type size can use that to distinguish the headings, e....

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... by about 4 :1. The Australian Oxford (2004) 2 91 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 [that/whom] ... “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 li...

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... takes to show the change. They therefore recommend 19 01 5, 19 55–8 and so on, but make an exception of numbers between 10 and 19 , as in references to the 19 14 18 War. The exception seems to take account ... 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 the...

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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 ... for others to know how to respond, and speakers can use it thus to disarm the audience on an issue. 11 1 canvas or canvass of the rod is the semantic basis of can...

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