... When you write the date in numbers BritishandAmericanEnglish differ. To write the date 7th of September 2007 a Brit would write dd/mm/yy (07/09/07) and an American would write mm/dd/yy (09/07/07). ... lorry boot vest flannel windscreen postcode zip Notes: 1 - When used to talk about roads and motorways. Someone I know took over 4 hours to complete a 25 minute drive, because he didn't ... garbage knapsack sedan report card Scotch tape stocks free time garters panty hose can candy apple bathroom flashlight pants undershirt rubber boots windshield zipper rubber...
... 69“WAS” 69“IN” 69“OF” 69OF = [A] 69“OF” = [OV] 69 ANDand “AN” sounds the same = “N” 69 AND 70“AN” 70“AT” 70“FOR” 70“OR” and “ARE” sounds the same 70“ARE” 70“OUR” 70“THE” [tha], ... (стр. 18) Cassette 3.2Td&D — стр.41 Cassette 3.2LIVING LANGUAGE ®A Random House Company American EnglishPronunciation ProgramWritten by BarbaraRaifsniderEdited by ChristopherA.WamaschTtraffic ... storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.Published by Living Language.A Random HouseCompany, 201East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022.Random House,...
... represented a thou-sand million, trillion a thousand thou-sand million, and so on. In thenineteenth century, the United Statesadopted the French system, and in 1948France adopted the British system. ... by an American publisher for American read-ers, but the author is Britishand his dis-cussion of the future of the universe istaken from a lecture at the University ofCambridge, England. Unless ... dark, and handsome,” leave out “both.”BOUGH and BOW. See Homo-phones.Brackets. See Punctuation, 7.46 bough and bow01-A-E_4 10/22/02 10:29 AM Page 46CONSENSUS. A question for twocritics and...
... (has-ten and of-ten).A hyphenated compound, such ashang-up or send-off, should be dividedat the hyphen and nowhere else. Yet onewas published as “han-” and “gup” and the other as “sen-” and “d-off” ... a and droit. One newspaper dividedthat word into “adr-” and “oit.”The rules, and their exceptions, go onat length, dealing with prefixes, suffixes,consonants, vowels, and double letters. And ... See CRES-CENDO.DEER, plural. See Plurals and singu-lars, 2C.DEFAMATION. See LIBEL and SLANDER.DEFEND. See Verbs, 1C.Defining clause. See THAT and WHICH.Dehumanization. A writer does notconsciously...
... memoranda.” It was a memorandum.A participant in a television forumsaid, “North drew up memoran-das. . . .” They were memoranda ormemorandums.Because memoranda is plural, “amemoranda” and ... mean and the median are bothaverages.ME and I. See Pronouns, 10.ME and MYSELF. See Pronouns,3, 4.Measures, quantities. See AMOUNT and NUMBER; Collective nouns, 3;FEWER and LESS; MANY and ... as in “small,medium, and large sizes.” The last twomediums resemble the Latin medium,meaning middle, which English adopted.MEDIAN. See MEAN (noun).MEMORANDA and MEMO-RANDUM. A U.S. senator...
... They would, for instance, sayovercautious and reject “overly cau-tious.”The Random House Dictionary listsabout 1,500 over- words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 83 pages of over-words, many ... said its [a dictionary s] pur-pose was to give the reader help onspelling, pronunciation, and themeaning and proper use of words.Would we not want “help in spelling” etcetera?To stand or wait ... stress.These are correct examples from TheOxford English Dictionary: “They weretied up and could noways appear”(1702). “I have lived a virgin and Inoway doubt I can live so still” (1875).A...
... in place ofa noun. For instance, “Stand beside her and guide her” substitutes for “Stand be-side America and guide America” in afamous song. Pronouns are handy de-vices, enabling us to avoid ... restric-304 prescribe and proscribe03-M–Q_4 10/22/02 10:32 AM Page 304pletely: “Jack said Sam took the money.” And “Fruit, trees, and flowers” are notthe same as “fruit trees and flowers.” And it might ... (36) . . .(13)” and so on. It is obscure whetherthe editor who put the list into print was British and neglected to make the correc-tion for American readers or was Ameri-can and just did not...
... (energize and enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and sanction and sanctions);DISINGENUOUS and INGENUOUS; EMIGRATE and IMMIGRATE; PRESCRIBE and PROSCRIBE.• Misunderstood terms. SeeCREDITOR and DEBTOR; ... (1758–1843), whochanged the British -our and -re endings(as in honour and centre) to -or and -er(honor and center).3. PrinciplesA. The best ruleThe rules of spelling and their excep-tions are ... may be, for example, prices of$1,000 and $4,000; about 30,000 and 7million speakers; 147 and 160 pounds;first and sixth grades; Maine and Florida; adagio and vivace—or moresubjective ones:Chicken...
... onealso protest the lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness?THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ-ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH; mix-upof THAT and WHICH. 3. “THAT” inplace of ... not.”An American general exhibited tauto-logical mastery. As secretary of state, headdressed the Organization of American States and imparted this intelligenceabout the Falkland Islands: “It ... to explore.“Ambiguity” (not “grace”) sums it up.THOSE and THEM. See THEM and THOSE.THOSE and THESE. See THESE and THOSE.THOU, THEE, and YE. See Pro-nouns, 10A.“THUNK.” See THINK, past partici-ple.THUS....
... people:who and that. See WHO, THAT, and WHICH.Which has two possessive forms: ofwhich and whose. Whose applies both topeople and to things. See WHOSE, 1.WHICH and THAT. See THAT and WHICH.WHICH and ... and BEST, WORSE and WORST.WOULD and WILL. See Doublenegative, 1; Subjunctive, 2, 3; Tense, 4.WOULD HAVE, WOULD’VE, and “WOULD OF.” See HAVE,HAS, HAD, 2.WRACK. See RACK and WRACK.WREAK and ... winding their way.WENT. See GONE and WENT.WERE. See WAS and WERE; Sub-junctive.WHAT EVER and WHATEVER.See (-)EVER.WHEN AND IF. See UNLESS AND UNTIL.when and if 46704-R–Z_4 10/22/02 10:33...
... doesn’t.It agrees with all singular nouns and with the pronouns he, she, and it and other singular pronouns except I and you. So “that [feeling] doesn’tmean.” And there is an “idiot thatdoesn’t know.” ... Joseph Priestleywas a scientist and the discoverer of oxy-gen. He was also a philosopher, politi-cian, and theologian, and in the 1760she wrote The Rudiments of English Grammar. In clear prose ... ofmultiplicity without “in droves.”“DRUG” and DRAGGED. SeeDRAGGED and “DRUG.”DUAL and DUEL. See Homo-phones.DUE TO. When to use the phrase dueto and when not to use it can be confus-ing,...