... graduates with the institution which gave them their degree, malegraduates being designated bythe first, and female by the second. Yet the male term is often used to include the other, as in the Melbourne ... ananalog to speed reading with a musical analogue to Esperanto. With these various uses analog appearstwice as often as analogue in CCAE data, which36 TheCambridgeGuide to English Usage PAM PETERS Macquarie ... of these, e.g. rival, total, are also used as verbs. The question then arises as to whether or not weshould double the final l before adding verb endings to them: rival(l)ed, total(l)ing etc. The...
... Tess's Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe tothe s of the plural in the normal way, e.g. bosses' the octopuses' tentacles the ... Some of the ways in which American usage differs from British are pointed out. 5. Reference. Ease of access tothe entry sought bythe user is a priority of the Guide. The division into four ... characters in novels, and hence no censure of the style of the author is implied. The aim is to illustrate the varieties of usage and to display the best, thereby making it more memorable than a mere...
... 1.10 by- prefix “Tending to form one word with the following noun, but a hyphen is still frequently found” (ODWE). One word: bygone, byline, byname, bypass, bypath, bystander, byway, byword; the ... Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe tothe s of the plural in the normal way, e. g. bosses' the octopuses' tentacles the ... stuccoes cargoes mementoes tomatoes dingoes mosquitoes tornadoes dominoes mottoes torpedoes echoes Negroes vetoes embargoes noes volcanoes goes peccadilloes grottoes porticoes Words not...
... which there arises uncertainty, difficulty, or disagreement. The proper aim of a usageguide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage. The Oxford GuidetoEnglish ... Tess's Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe tothe s of the plural in the normal way, e.g. bosses' the octopuses' tentacles the ... within the word to connect a prefix or suffix to the stem. With most prefixes and suffixes it is normal to write the whole compound as a single word; the use of the hyphen is exceptional, and the ...
... JusticeMichael Kirby (of the High Court of Australia). In the preparatory stages of The CambridgeGuidetoEnglish Usage, I was fortunate to be a visiting professor at the Englisches Seminar of the University ... from the Longman corpus of over 40 million words insix registers, to complement or extend the data derived from the BNC and CCAE,mentioned above. TheCambridgeGuidetoEnglishUsage aims to ... of these, e.g. rival, total, are also used as verbs. The question then arises as to whether or not weshould double the final l before adding verb endings to them: rival(l)ed, total(l)ing etc. The...
... normally take plural verbs. Seefurther under agreement section 4.totaled or totalled Whether to double or not to double the l is discussedat -l/-ll toto See in toto.tour de forceThis French phrase ... main title, and option (a) for the subtitle, as in: The Life and Times of theEnglish Language: the marvellous history of the English tongue The use of option (a) for the subtitle also settles a ... Sentence positions. The all-important first “slot” in the sentence is often referred to as the topic. The rest of the sentence is then known as the comment. In theseterms the first sentence above...
... areset together as one, usually because the second is strongly related tothe first. Seefor example: The news of the proposed devaluation got out; there was an immediate run on the stock exchange.In ... describe and evaluate the noun to which they’re attached. They standright next to it, even if this delays the predicate of the main clause: The old computer that we bought at the markets has never ... taxi, and the visitors did the same.Note that there are no overtones of commercialese or legalese in such usage; same isin fact one of the cohesive devices of standard English. (See further under...
... within them. The term applies tothe medieval assumption that the sun revolved around the earth, which was replaced bythe opposite cosmologicalparadigm—that the earth revolves around the sun. ... passed.past tense Most English verbs show whether the action they refer to happenedin the past, rather than the present or some indefinite time in the future. This is the point of difference ... meaning,and even they tend to gather new meanings around themselves as they gainwider currency. Scientists sometimes lament the fact that “their words” are useddifferently by others—thatexpressions...
... I specify otherwise.I use the word “application” sometimes to refer tothe form the hirer wants filled out, but more often to refer tothe entire job-application process. I use the gender ... to translate it into other languages!) If you choose to distribute your altered version to others, you must permit them the same freedom to copy, alter and distribute noncommercially, and they ... possible on the part of the hirer. Since HIAP + Enthusiasm helps minimize fear, it is definitely the way to go. HIAP + Enthusiasm can lead to LAFS, in other words. By the way, the converse to everything...
... wording at the top of the area changed from “Buy from Amazon.com” tothe more persuasive “Ready to Buy?”:Amazon.com kept the same add -to- cart button and added the 1-Click option below it. The new ... time to place more stock in them than they may merit. Nor is this the time to cling to tradi-tional marketing practices in an era that has turned many of them upside down.This is the time to ... the greater the body of knowledge you will build toguide your decisions in the future. Furthermore, it gives you a verdict you can present to your nay-sayers to dispute you, they’ll need to...
... notice the sharing buttons or be compelled to use them.Here is an example of traditional, passive social sharing:You see the social shares up top, but that is the only place they appear tothe ... it, bythe time you get tothe end you might not remember to share.If you employ active sharing techniques, you are asking your audience to share at the right time. At Marketo, we use Marketo ... Marketing to prompt people to share our message. If you are reading a blog, in addition tothe social share buttons that appear at the top, we also prompt our readers to share by having a...