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Báo cáo khoa học: "The Derivation of a GrammaticaUy Indexed Lexicon from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: "The Derivation of a GrammaticaUy Indexed Lexicon from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" pptx

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... 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 advanced ... arises of how to develop such a detailed and substantial word list. Our approach has been to make use of the machine-readable source of a published dictionary, namely the Longr~sn Dictionary of ... formalism and current coverage of the English grammar in detail. Russell et al. (1986) describes the morphological anal- yser and dictionary system. Further relevant details of both projects...
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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... form of early American English. London usage reflected the linguistic patriotism of the English Renaissance and accepted forms from a variety of regional and social dialects in the development of ... vigorous conversational speech. THE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH The fluid structure of Early Modern English underlies the formation of American English. Although the Great Vowel Shift had assigned ... redundancy first: of the 33 or so phonemes of English, only a small subset of their possible permutations can form actual words. Adult English speakers know, for example, that trip is an English word....
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a dictionary of modern english ge sep 1987

a dictionary of modern english ge sep 1987

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... manuscripts n., noun NEB, New English Bible nn., nouns obj., object OED, Oxford English Dictionary OID, Oxford Illustra- ted Dictionary opp., as opposed to OUP, Oxford Univer- sity Press part., ... air- craft (formerly collective but now often A DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH USAGE BY H.W. FOWLER SECOND EDITION revised by SIR ERNEST GOWERS Oxford New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS alien for ... well said of the original book will still be true of this edition : 'You cannot depend on the Fowler of Modern English Usage giving you either an objective account of what...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

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... dis- tinguished from a consensus of authority, of evidence, of faith, of taste, of testimony, and so on. In any case, “consensus of does not go with “some kind of Mafia involve- ment” (in the third ... description of a market scene in Niger, a book of true adventure contains an ex- ample of the strict use of career: A man trying out a camel careered out of control, much to the amusement of the crowd. The ... reversal of the chronological order of events, often with after, in an effort to update the news; and (2) use of condition in a special sense, that of a medical prognosis, a prediction of a patient’s...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps

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... The term also denotes a system of govern- ment by elected representatives of the people. Freedom means the state of being free from restraints or being free from of cial oppression or being able ... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals. Often of fol- lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... instead of became or waxed enthusiastic, was disapproved by 76 percent of The American Heritage Dictionary s usage panel. “He was con- siderably less enthused by signs of fac- tionalism,” instead of...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

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... rare kind of stone.” The same principle holds for class of, sort of, and type of. “A gnu is a type of antelope.” 3. Properly used with A or AN Kind of in another sense may go with a. Being a kind of ... fully. “She’s a kind of butterfly.” / “George is a sort of expert.” The same goes for kind of a (or an) or sort of a (or an). “My boss is kind of a tyrant.” / “They say Fred is sort of an animal at ... last or the last of those or something 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...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps

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... been one of the mean- ings of over since the Middle Ages. The Oxford English Dictionary offers eight quotations, from the fourteenth century on, to illustrate that over can mean “In excess of, above, ... ending. See Plurals and singulars, 2J. OF. See COMPRISE; HAVE, HAS, HAD, 2; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 3; Prepositions; SUPPORTIVE. OF ANY, OF ANYONE. See ANY, 1, 2. OF COURSE. 1. Benefit. 2. Draw- back. ... blow them out of the sky” (a non sequitur). “Little choice”? The Americans had the choice of not blowing them out of the sky; the choice of talking instead of shooting; the choice of going home....
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx

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... done without unduly raising the price of coal or of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit the second of; no preposition belongs there at all. See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 2; WHENCE and “FROM ... thought. Their function of setting off part of a sentence resembles that of dashes and parentheses. (See 4, 7.) In general, com- mas least interrupt the flow of the sen- tence. When the set-off matter comes ... as the subject of its verb (lives or comes). (See THAT and WHICH; WHO, THAT, and WHICH.) PROOF and EVIDENCE. See EVI- DENCE and PROOF. PROOF OF THE PUDDING. The proverb about proof and pudding...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx

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... ON, 1.) The derailment of a series ranks high among the most common errors found in print. The main cause of it is the fear of repetition, even the repetition of so in- offensive a word as and. ... save by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. . . . . . . For the sake of God, and for the bettering of our realm, and for the more ready healing of the discord which has ... deprived of liberty without due process of law. The sentence affirms a “right to be de- prived of liberty.” To invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, insert not before “to be deprived.” A court of...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc

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... a maga- zine essay by a professor of English, protesting the lowering of standards of behavior: “. . . Common decency has not been all that common for long stretches of human history.” May one also ... lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness? THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ- ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH; mix-up of THAT and WHICH. 3. “THAT” in place of WHICH. 4. Versions of a ... adjective and a sin- gular noun. Any of these work: those kinds of law or that kind of law or laws of that kind. See also KIND OF, 1; Pronouns, 2 (misuse of them); THESE and THOSE. THEMSELVES...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt

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... Crowell Co., 1972. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 vol., Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1971. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Cur- rent English, 6th ed., J. B. Sykes, ... of Style, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. The College Standard Dictionary of the reference works 487 REFERENCE WORKS Many of the reference works consulted in the preparation of ... Md.: Naval In- stitute Press, 1994. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner, New York, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1987. Dictionary of Quotations, Bergen Evans, New York:...
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