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English Grammar - The Oxford Guide To English Usage
... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... 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 just ... the use of long series of hyphened words. 6. A group of words that has been turned into a syntactic unit, often behaving as a different part of speech from the words of which it is composed,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The Derivation of a GrammaticaUy Indexed Lexicon from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" pptx
... the utility of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglgsA as a suitable source dictionary for the target lexicon. 1 Introduction Within the larger framework of the Alvey Programme of ... 2 The target lexicon Given the goal of the toolkit projects to provide a led- con capable of supporting morphological and syntactic analysis of English, there is a precise definition of the ... ~oelieve = . The values of PLU and PER are predictable on the basis of the word grammar rules and need not be independently specified for each entry. On the other hand, the values of SUBCAT...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Oxford Dictionary of English: Current Developments" pdf
... dictionary. 1 Introduction The goal of the project is to enhance the database of the Oxford Dictionary of English (a forthcoming new edition of the 1998 New Oxford Dictionary of English) so that it ... Press, Cambridge, Mass. Judy Pearsall. 1998. The New Oxford Dictionary of English. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 126 matic analysis and grading of defmitions is proving highly productive ... predicated on the original dictionary content, and not the other way round. There has been no attempt to alter the origi- nal content in order to facilitate the generation of formal data. The enhanced...
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the oxford history of english sep 2006
... languages they speak will therefore be one of the major themes of this chapter, which will focus on the pre-history of English and the various developments which underpin the creation of English as ... in the past tense forms of a group of strong verbs, of what is known as reduplication; that is, the addition at the beginning of a word of a syllable consisting of the initial consonant of the ... forms of English that the migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the part of Britain from which they came, their social class, their age, and the date at which they...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
... weather in the center of the storm. The narrator of a documentary film said, “At the eye of the hurricane, the wind can exceed 200 miles an hour.” He, or the writer, was wrong. In the eye, “winds diminish ... the farthest from the Sun.” Furthest is most far in a figurative sense: Of the paint- ings on display, those by Dalí are the fur- thest from reality.” Those cool to the idea of distinguish- ing the ... carried the headline “I can’t get no interaction.” Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try- ing to achieve some kind of effect, be- sides the effect of making the newspaper seem...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx
... Went is the past tense of the verb go. The past participle of go is gone. Therefore a correction of the first exam- ple is either The drug activity went down . . .” (in the past tense) or The drug ... defaced.” The form is the same; it is active, yet the meaning is passive. The subjects do not cause the action; it is thrust upon them. The passive use of the verb have is not new; it is found in the ... the various other theories concerning the alphabet are the hy- potheses that the alphabet was brought by the Philistines from Crete to Palestine, that the various ancient scripts of the Mediterranean...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 ppsx
... similar. Among the items kept there are the diary of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebels, an X-ray of Adolph Hitler’s skull and the first edition of Pravda, the newspaper of the Soviet Communist Party. The ... figure midway in a set of figures arranged in or- der of size. In the set of three just above, the median is 36. (When the number of items is even, the median is the mean of the two figures in the middle.) ... is the sum of a set of figures di- vided by the number of figures in the set. The definitions coincide only for a set of two figures. The mean of 56, 36, and 34 is 42. A statistical term in which the...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 ppsx
... during the impact that knocked the meteorite off of Mars.” Off Mars. The four extracts below from newspa- pers all contain the same error: “Mar- tinez’s car hit the rear of one car, glanced off of ... suit in the news is to ask for absurdly exorbi- tant damages. The amount of the suit will appear in the opening sentence of the story—each of the sample sentences below—and often in the headline ... .” Change “off of to from. (And insert a comma after “Bruno.” As for the capital T in The, ” not the writer but a quirk of his newspaper was to blame.) OFF and ON. See GO OFF and GO ON. “OLDEST PROFESSION.”...
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