...
FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME
Stephen Hawking writes about the beginning of time, but few other people do. People who
write "from the beginning of time" or "since time began" ... denigrating others. The word was then broadened to cover an exaggerated
belief in the superiority of one's own kind in other respects. Following this pattern, feminists
in the 1970s invented ... minister to someone by administering first aid. Note how the "ad" in "administer
resembles "aid" in order to remember the correct form of the latter phrase. "Minister"...
... CommonErrorsinEnglish
Common Errorsin English
Go to list of errors.
What is an error in English?
The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I’ll leave to linguists the ...
List of errors
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Common Errorsin English
Read about the book version of this site.
Coming soon: ... Non -Errors Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in
English.
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AIN’T
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... Digoxin
Steroids
Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)
Aspirin
Vitamins
Aminoglycosides
Tetracyclines
Macrolides
Clindamycin
Chloramphenicol
Vancomycin
Aztreonam
Quinolones
Carbapenems
Tigecycline
Daptomycin
Quinupristin/dalfopristin
Linezolid
Abbreviation: ... care.
Importantly, Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine (third edition) is written from the
infectious disease perspective by clinicians for clinicians who deal with infectious diseases in
critical ... present and are becoming important in critical
care. Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine (third edition) remains the only book
exclusively dedicated to infectious diseases in critical care.
Importantly,...
... textbooks on English writing in Korea, however, few
textbooks explain sentence punctuation in English.
→ There are many textbooks on English writing in Korea; however, few
textbooks explain sentence ...
decades. Integral imaging (InIm), which was
originally called integral photography, is one
of the most attractive technologies in the field
of 3D displays.
Incorrect:
Abstract
Integral imaging ... (WSI)
increased when both temperature and
chlorine concentration increased.
No abbreviations in subheadings
3.3 Abbreviations:
Don’t introduce abbreviations in subheadings
8
Abbreviations in body...
...
DireeEias:
Read the following sentences aloud. Practice contracting
wia
with
nouns
in
speech.
Will
is usually contracted with pronouns
in
both speech and informal writing.
1.
Rob will probably ...
italicized
verbs in the following dialogues. Are the speakers expressing
(1)
plans they made
before
the moment of speaking, or
(2)
decisions they are making
at
the moment
of
speaking?
1.
A: ...
Who's going to visit an interesting place soon?
Where are you going to go?
Question
to
Speaker B:
How is
(Speaker A)
going to get to
(name ofplace)?
2.
Who is going to stay home...
...
A. rained
B.
had rained
C.
is raining
D.
was raining
.,.
!+$
4.
Australian koala bears are interesting animals. They
practically their entire lives
in
trees without ever
coming ...
is staying
B.
stayed
C.
was staying
D.
has been staying
9.
Mrs. Larsen discovered a bird in her apartment. It was in her living mom. It
into her apartment through
an
open window.
A. ... words
-,f
(1
5-6
Using
what
+
a form of
do
5-7
Using
what kind of
5-8
Using
which
5-9
Using
whose
5-10
Using
how
5-1 1
Using
how oflen
5-12
Using
how far
.:
JJ-
a...
... It comes at the
beginning of a sentence.
WCO~CT:
It
will
maybe rain tomom.
In
(h):
mqy
be
(two words) is a verb form: the
auxiliary
may
+
the main
d
be.
INCO~
John maybe sick. ... course.
Yes. Certainly.
Of course.
Certainly.
Sure. (informal)
Okay. (informal)
Uh-huh.
(meaning "yes")
I'm sorry, but
I
need to
use it myself.
I
&apos ;In
a
police question, ... Make guesses using
could,
may,
and
might.
Example:
is made of metal and you keep it in a pocket
TEACHER:
I'm thinking of something that is made of metal. I keep it
in
my pocket....
...
am
getting
hungry.
Let's eat.
of change-rhe idea of becoming, beginning to be,
(b)
Eric
got
nervous
before the job interview.
mowing
to
be.
In
(a):
I'm
getting hungry. ...
He said that people would be
in
hearing about
:.
how she fell into a fountain.
The
Passive
299
5.
The exploration of space interests me.
a. I'm
in
the exploration of space. ... sentences
with
the appropriate
-ed
or
-ing
form of the words in
italics.
Julie was walking along the
edge
of the fountain outside her office building. She was with
-
her co-worker and...
... sitting
in it.
which
I
am sining
in
is hard.
(g)
The chair
(h)
The chair
that
Z
am sifting
in
is hard.
(i) The chair
0
I
am sining
in
is hard.
EXERCISE
15.
Prepositions In ... appreciated the many things they had incommon as
human beings despite their differences
in
cultural background.
7.
Many of the problems that exist today have existed since the beginning of recorded ... preposition
in
an adjective
clause.
REMINDER:
An
object pronoun can be
omitted from an adjective clause, as in (d)
1
and
(0.
In very formal English, a preposition comes
at the beginning of...