... examined wordsthat sound the same; in this unit, we’ll learn to tell apart wordsthat look thesame like members of thesame family that all have thesame pecu-liar nose. Some of these wordsare ... for speaking outagainst the company’s policy.r Bad Grammar Ch 09.pmd 3/17/2004, 9:46 AM189 181Mixing up WordsThat Look the Same CHAPTER 9Mixing up Words That Look the Same 181 In Chapter ... “Continually” refers to something that recurs at frequent intervals. In this case, the meaning is that many calls came in at intervals that were too short forher father’s liking. So “continually”...
... 169Mixing up WordsThat Sound the Same CHAPTER 8Mixing up Words That Sound the Same 169One of the great things about theEnglish language is itsextraordinary depth. It has so many wordsthat there ... as in our sentence here, where the idea is that others in addition to the person being rebuked would like to get through the line. Here are more correct examples:He’s smart and handsome and ... is the noun meaning the suggestionsthemselves. You advise a person to do something. That some-thing is the advice you offer. In this sentence, we’re referringnot to the action of offering...
... ■Preventing Message MistakesFew words — indeed, few messages of any kind —whether in politics or inthe business world, are ingested in isolation. Their meanings are shaped and shaded by the regional ... sharing with the world — andthe worldinevitably interprets, indeed sometimes shifts and dis-torts, our original meaning.Examining the strategic and tactical use of language in politics, business ... Something New. In plain English, wordsthat work often involve a new definitionof an old idea. At a time when cars andthe promotionof them were expanding in size, Volkswagen took exact-ly the...
... succeeded in becoming biliterate in schools that introducereading in two languages from the beginning as well as in schools that teach read-ing first inthe native language. In addition, in dual ... they are acquiring English, there has always been opposition to bilingual education. Inthe following sections,we first look at the research and theory that support bilingual education and thengive ... speaking a language other than Englishand if alltheir instruction is in English, they won’t understand the teacher and will fall behind. In contrast, as Krashen (1996) notes, students in bilingual...
... explicate the framing assumptions that govern the ways in which the Irish are (and are not) seen; that determine the variousstrategies advocated for ‘‘conciliating’’ or ‘‘attaching’’ them to English rule, ... in England as it has in France, alldistinctions would thereby be lost. Here Burke avows the central role ofmasculine heterosexual discipline in creating and maintaining social,political, and ... literature, and obscures the important part these (and other)novelists play in constituting and contesting Irish andEnglish nationalidentities. Marking writers or writings in these ways, moreover,...
... temperate and bo-real Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa, which arethe key areas that will beexamined in Chapter 7 with regard to the Neanderthal extinction andthe coloni-sation by Moderns. In ... cycle.SynthesisThere are several points that will be of particular importance to the discussionof Modern Human colonisation and Neanderthal extinction inthe followingchapter. In global terms the ... 1999), inthe relative abundance of thermophyllous species, andin the Africa and Eurasia during the last glacial cycle 139 and fauna predominated (Coope, 2002). Evidence from other sites across the North...
... chains. First, the chains are degraded by bothendochitinases, that attack the chitin chain randomly, and exochitinases, that attack the chitin chains fromeither the reducing or nonreducing ... proteins isformed by the two inserts in LlCBP33A that seempositioned close to the conserved surface patch and that could extend the binding surface (Fig. 3B). Inter-estingly, the largest insert ... heteropolymer. The crystalline chitin used in mostexperiments inthe chitin ⁄ chitinase field has been trea-ted by strong acids and bases in order to remove the protein and ⁄ or the mineral fraction....
... chine, a sentence could be translated with com- plete syntactical correctness from Japanese into the interlingua, and from the interlingua into English, German, Latin and Welsh. Thus the ... clear that if a well- grounded decision was to be made between the policy of interlingualizing the thesaurus, (that is, of assimilating semantics to syntax) and that of thesaurizing the syntax ... separation of the particular from the comparative universal range of validity (in MT terminology, of monolingual from interlingual features), and by their separate handling inthe program The basic...
... was inthe 1970s and 1980s. In contrast, smoking inthe general population has declined since the 1970s. Smokers in movies differ from smokers in the general population: the former are more ... channels used in advertising and promoting tobacco products; emerging promotional channels such as packaging, viral marketing, andthe Internet; and recent trends in tobacco advertising and promotional ... to secondhand smoke, questioning the accuracy of tobacco industry communications, andthe declining social acceptability of smoking. Other forms of smoking-relevant advertising include advertisements...
... against oxidative damage caused by peroxynitrite(ONOO)). These findings indicate thatthe cysteineresidues exposed on the surface of proteins are the dominant intracellular thiol andthat they ... addition, there are thiolsexposed on protein surfaces thatare not directly involved with proteinfunction, although they can interact with the intracellular environment. In the present study, in subcellular ... about the amountof exposed protein thiols within cells in comparison toGSH, or whether they are important in cellular defence.To determine the contribution of exposed protein thiolsto the intracellular...