hill apos s dictionary of american idioms and phrasal verbs
McGraw Hill''''s Dictionary of american idioms and phrasal verbs
... not assent to our request assess something at something to estimate or value something at some figure ᮀ They assess the value of our house at half what it would sell for ᮀ The house was assessed ... directly to a specific person or group of persons (See also address oneself to someone; address oneself to something ) ᮀ George addressed his remarks to everyone address oneself to someone to speak directly ... of everything, though ᮀ As far as it goes, this law is a good one It should set stiffer penalties, however as far as possible and so far as possible as much as possible; to whatever degree is...
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Từ điển từ lóng tiếng Anh - Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
... USE This is a copyrighted work and The McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc (“McGraw -Hill ) and its licensors reserve all rights in and to the work Use of this work is subject to these terms Except as ... complete sentences Slang is rarely the first choice of careful writers or speakers or anyone attempting to use language for formal, persuasive, or business purposes Nonetheless, expressions that ... has brought a constant stream of criminal slang into novels, movies, and radio and television shows over the last half century This dictionary contains many of the expressions from these areas...
Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2013, 17:03
Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions pptx
... ideas Man of his word A man of his word is a person who does what he says and keeps his promises. Man of letters A man of letters is someone who is an expert in the arts and ... Full of beans If someone 's full of beans, they are very energetic Full of hot air Someone who is full of hot air talks a lot of rubbish Full of piss and vinegar Someone who 's full of piss and ... balls off a brass monkey, it is extremely cold Brass neck (UK) Someone who has the brass neck to something has no sense of shame about what they Brass tacks If you get down to brass tacks, you...
Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 13:15
Tài liệu Dictionary of English Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions docx
... ideas Man of his word A man of his word is a person who does what he says and keeps his promises. Man of letters A man of letters is someone who is an expert in the arts and ... Full of beans If someone 's full of beans, they are very energetic Full of hot air Someone who is full of hot air talks a lot of rubbish Full of piss and vinegar Someone who 's full of piss and ... balls off a brass monkey, it is extremely cold Brass neck (UK) Someone who has the brass neck to something has no sense of shame about what they Brass tacks If you get down to brass tacks, you...
Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 09:21
dictionary of algebra, arithmetic and trigonometry - s. krantz
... a − b is divisible by m conjugacy class Assume S is a set A binary relation R on S is a subset of S × S The conjugacy class determined by an element a ∈ S is the set of elements b ∈ S so that ... subsets of Vα and Vβ and between subsets of Vβ and Vγ are consistent with those between subsets of Vα and Vγ c 2001 by CRC Press LLC acceleration parameter A parameter chosen in applying successive ... base of number system The number which is used as a base for successive powers, combinations of which are used to express all positive integers and rational numbers For example, 2543 in the base...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
... first of to that there was or change “consensus of to belief in Consensus sometimes is misspelled “concensus” and occasionally is confused with “census.” Consensus, like consent, originates ... objects Recommit Missing objects Something is missing from both of these sentences, extracted from a television newscast and a book about business mistakes: There isn’t the same pressure on President ... contains salt and spices.”) The whole and the parts The whole comprises its parts, not the other way around Congress comprises two houses Two houses not “comprise” Congress This passage appears in...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... for the duchess See Series errors.) DISASSEMBLE and DISSEMBLE See Confusing pairs DISASTER A disaster is a great misfortune, such as a destructive earthquake, famine, or flood It is a happening, ... costs less than $20,” we think of a single sum, not of individual dollars In the sentences “She is less than six months old” / “The machine weighs less than nine pounds” / “The station is less ... 200,000 less students in the state university system.” A candidate for governor said that in a questionand-answer segment of a television news show, erroneously using “less” instead of fewer A...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
... also AS and LIKE, 2; UNLIKE Sense and senselessness Like, while a legitimate word, is perhaps used more often in a slang sense or senselessly In standard usage, like, as a preposition, means similar ... three-quarters of the city s garbage is disposed of in a vast landfill on the island known as Fresh Kills A reader might wonder: is “the island known as Fresh Kills” off the coast of Staten Island, or ... loose sales I always wanted to loose weight and become stronger “Loose” is almost the reverse of what both excerpts need: lose The past tense and past participle of loose is loosed; of lose is lost...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
... amendments was a disappointment to conservatives ” (from a news dispatch) “Senate” should be possessive—Senate s just as its is possessive “Senate consent” is headline language • “She displays ... English himself The of should have been at 271 “Off of is a substandard phrase Of is superfluous; its sense is included in off The of intrudes often in conversations and at times in broadcasting ... strictly speaking, irreverence to that which is sacred, or an instance of such irreverence, popularly used as a synonym for obscenity OBSESS, OBSESSED, OBSESSION To obsess someone is to besiege, beset,...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... contractions (B), omitted and superfluous apostrophes (C and D), possessives of possessives (F) and sibilant endings (G) See also Gerund, 4; Pronouns, 1, 2, POSSIBLE, POSSIBLY, POSSIBILITY Meaning of POSSIBLE ... “Carson s and Leno s comedy.” F Possessives of possessives To have consecutive words with the possessive s can be awkward and usually is avoidable “Jack s mother s friend” is better rephrased ... precede the apostrophe: princess’, Moses’, Jesus’ Similarly, plural words ending in two s or z sounds get an apostrophe only: misses’ and dresses’ Exceptions are made also for some expressions in which...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
... OUT SANCTION and SANCTIONS See Confusing pairs SARCASM, SATIRE See IRONY (etc.) SAVING and SAVINGS See Confusing pairs SAW and SEEN See Tense, 5A SAY, SAYS See SAID SCALD and SCOLD In a television ... three series The first, consisting of four nouns, is perfectly proper There is also a series of verbs, consisting of the second “is ” and “lends ” Under the second “is,” a subseries of two ... us and our barons, we have made all these aforesaid concessions SET and SIT The sun, cement, and setters set People, courts, and most objects sit “Set” in place of sit is dialectal and nonstandard—with...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
... Stealing See STANDARD See CLASSIC STEREOTYPE See Clich s STANDARD-BEARER See Joining STICK UP, STICKUP, STICK-UP of words STAR and SUN The discovery of a distant galaxy prompted a news agency to issue ... must, should, or would, sometimes the have is erroneously replaced by of. ” See HAVE, HAS, HAD, See also Tense, 4C SUBSEQUENT TO See AFTER Substantive See Nouns, (end) SUCCESSOR See PREDECESSOR ... its killing and suffering, is of no moment if it brings a president “personal fulfillment.” See also DISASTER Transitive and intransitive verbs See Verbs, TRANSPIRE To use “transpire” instead of...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt
... newscast: Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, is among senators who is opposed to calling witnesses Yes, he “is among senators,” but those senators “are opposed.” See ONE OF, Usually a subject ... which she dislikes.” Does she dislike the task or dogs? Changing “which” to either a task or animals would answer the question Carelessness about antecedents sometimes results in sentences that say ... stockholders, excerpts from a corporation s annual report: 456 verbs The portion of sales hedged is based on assessments of cost-benefit profiles that consider natural offsetting exposures, revenue and exchange...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
... for the duchess See Series errors.) DISASSEMBLE and DISSEMBLE See Confusing pairs DISASTER A disaster is a great misfortune, such as a destructive earthquake, famine, or flood It is a happening, ... costs less than $20,” we think of a single sum, not of individual dollars In the sentences “She is less than six months old” / “The machine weighs less than nine pounds” / “The station is less ... 200,000 less students in the state university system.” A candidate for governor said that in a questionand-answer segment of a television news show, erroneously using “less” instead of fewer A...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22
The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx
... involuntary response to a stimulus INSURANCE and ASSURANCE, INSURE and ENSURE See ASSURE, ENSURE, and INSURE, INTER- and INTRA- prefixes See Confusing pairs INTEREST, INTERESTED See DISINTERESTED and UNINTERESTED ... Swedish gatlopp, was used in a punishment of thieves and then of soldiers It consisted of two rows of men facing one another and holding such objects as sticks and knotted cords The offender was stripped ... is inexpressible, less often unexpressible (adjectives), not subject to expression An inexpressible (noun) is something that cannot be expressed At one time inexpressibles applied to trousers...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 ppsx
... also AS and LIKE, 2; UNLIKE Sense and senselessness Like, while a legitimate word, is perhaps used more often in a slang sense or senselessly In standard usage, like, as a preposition, means similar ... three-quarters of the city s garbage is disposed of in a vast landfill on the island known as Fresh Kills A reader might wonder: is “the island known as Fresh Kills” off the coast of Staten Island, or ... loose sales I always wanted to loose weight and become stronger “Loose” is almost the reverse of what both excerpts need: lose The past tense and past participle of loose is loosed; of lose is lost...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 ppsx
... amendments was a disappointment to conservatives ” (from a news dispatch) “Senate” should be possessive—Senate s just as its is possessive “Senate consent” is headline language • “She displays ... English himself The of should have been at 271 “Off of is a substandard phrase Of is superfluous; its sense is included in off The of intrudes often in conversations and at times in broadcasting ... strictly speaking, irreverence to that which is sacred, or an instance of such irreverence, popularly used as a synonym for obscenity OBSESS, OBSESSED, OBSESSION To obsess someone is to besiege, beset,...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22