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Tài liệu Peters - The Cambridge Guide to English Usage pptx

... style Jargon Journalese Plain English Technologese SPECIAL STYLES American English Australian English British English Canadian English International English New Zealand English South African English Standard English VARIETIES ... an analog to speed reading with a musical analogue to Esperanto. With these various uses analog appears twice as often as analogue in CCAE data, which 36 The Cambridge Guide to English Usage PAM ... above. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage aims to bridge the gap between traditional and modern grammar, and uses terminology from both (e.g. mood and modality) as entry points to discussing...

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Oxford University Press The Oxford Guide To English Usage

... a, e.g. a historic occasion, a hotel. ° The older usage was not to pronounce h and to write an, but this is now almost obsolete. B. Before capital letter abbreviations. Be guided by the ... Compositors and Readers (edn. 39, Oxford, 1983) MEU H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (edn. 2, revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, ... discoverer, photographer, executioner, organizer. Principal exceptions: counsellor, carburettor, conqueror. 3. -or follows -at- to form a suffix -ator, often but not always in words related to verbs...

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The Oxford Guide To English Usage

... and -ible” in topic 1.3; “ae and oe” in topic 1.4; “-ce or -se” in topic 1.14; “doubling of final consonant” in topic 1.16; “dropping of silent -e” in topic 1.17; “hyphens” in topic 1.27; ... “l and ll” in topic 1.32; “-oul-” in topic 1.36; “-our or -or” in topic 1.37; “past of verbs, formation of” in topic 1.38; “-re or -er” in topic 1.41; “-xion or -ction” in topic 1.45; “-yse ... potatoes = shouts of “bravo!”) heroes salvoes (= discharges salvos buffaloes innuendoes = reservations, excuses) calicoes mangoes stuccoes cargoes mementoes tomatoes dingoes mosquitoes tornadoes...

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English Grammar - The Oxford Guide To English Usage

... or disagreement. The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage. The Oxford Guide to English Usage has this aim. Within the limits ... discoverer, photographer, executioner, organizer. Principal exceptions: counsellor, carburettor, conqueror. 3. -or follows -at- to form a suffix -ator, often but not always in words related to verbs ... -er. So supervisor, compressor, prospector, but adviser, presser, perfecter. -tor usually follows -c, unstressed i, and u, e.g. actor, compositor, executor; -ter usually follows f, gh, l, r,...

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Tài liệu The Cambridge Guide to Englsih Usage doc

... style Jargon Journalese Plain English Technologese SPECIAL STYLES American English Australian English British English Canadian English International English New Zealand English South African English Standard English VARIETIES ... the preparatory stages of The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, I was fortunate to be a visiting professor at the Englisches Seminar of the University of Z ¨urich, which gave me access to their excellent ... information focus and sentence topic, as aids to writing and editing. viii Preface Apart from its large range of primary and secondary sources, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage draws on the ﬁndings...

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