the cambridge guide to englsih usage

... presence in the community, not through any desire to endorse them. Note that the negative form for both tolerance and toleration is intolerance. ton, tonne or tun The word ton belongs to the imperial ... it too is ultimately the same word. 806 topic The word tonnage relates to tons and the imperial system, and there’s not yet an equivalent for tonnes in the metric system. One could suggest tonneage, ... normally take plural verbs See further under agreement section 4 totaled or totalled Whether to double or not to double the l is discussed at -l/-ll- toto See in toto tour de force This French

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... reference material out of the ongoing discussion. Only a superscript number intervenes to guide your eye to the bottom of the page, or to the end of chapter/book when you’re ready. The numerals for footnotes ... said at the most productive moment, and not too early so that they have to be repeated. Still a writer may want to foreshadow things at the start of a document, and to summarise them at the end. ... whatever the reader needs to track them down. In the first reference to any source, it’s important to name the author, title, date of publication and the relevant page numbers. Unless there are

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... simply appear at the top of the column (Note that the figures in the column may not add up to exactly 100 percent, and the total at the bottom should... ravioli, spirelli, tortellini, ... by the Greeks and Macedonians (men packed together under overlapping shields) But for the anatomist who uses the word to mean any of the bones of the. .. out of town, or in another ... pimento or pimiento These both go back to the Spanish word for pepper, but they are now attached to quite different fruits Pimiento is the sweet and pungently flavored red pepper, the

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21

... few of the Oxford citations show it, whether they refer to the shoe, or to the plant or animal which also embody the name The spelling with one c seems to come closer to the ... interrogative (where the verb phrase is inverted and therefore different: Are they there?) 523 mora Nowadays the. .. close to the eyes, they look rather like the archetypal coalminer, ... So the bar comes to stand for the legal profession, because of the railing in a courtroom which divides the public 507 [...]... hypothetical statements: If only they were there Were they there

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... needs to identify and frame the topic to be discussed, with some indication as to the stages in which it will be treated, or the ultimate destination of the argument. The longer the document, the ... hardly there when it refers to the light of the sun. interpretive or interpretative Which of these gets priority varies from dictionary to dictionary, and either can be justified. According to the ... integration To get the spelling right for any of these, think integrity. Its pronunciation helps to ensure you don’t write the first part of the others as inter The prefix inter- has no part in any of them.

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... groyne These spellings are usually applied to two different words The first is anatomical, used to refer to the groove where thighs join the abdomen, a usage which goes back to about ... with the individuals it comprises: The government is on the point... than in overwhelming their readers with long words Whether they aim to impress or to cover their tracks, what they ... prisoner in custody to bring him or her to court, and state the reasons for their detention The court then examines the law under which the person is held and decides whether imprisonment

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... precipitator radiator spectator illustrator operator With other Latin verb groups, the endings are increasingly mixed Older agentives such as conductor, contributor, director, instructor and investor ... (counting in the full stop) for an omission between sentences—creates many complexities. The spacing for the four dots is uneven, with the full stop set close to the final word, and the other three ... The ellipted elements are shown in square brackets. 247 ellipsis a) They took glasses from the bar and [they took] knives and forks from the tables. b) They said [that] no-one was there. c) The

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... grammatical terms they link together main clauses (see further under clauses). They appear at the head of a clause, and allow the subject following them to be deleted if it’s the same as the one just ... ordered the ship back to port The narrative keeps the ship in the spotlight—in the topic position in both sentences (see further under topic) In their respective writing contexts the ... beyond the sentence itself If we rewrite the sentences to eliminate the dangling participles we lose the topicalising effect they have Any sentence in which the. .. to acquit the

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... of these correspond to the modals in meaning but are often if not always followed by the to- infinitive: Marginal modals ought to need (to) used to dare (to) Semi-auxiliaries have to be able to ... needs to plan to develop the discussion step by step towards a climax, in order to convince the reader Many writers make their strongest argument the last one in the series, to ensure the impact ... related to the verb cohere (“stick together”) None of them retain the literal meaning of the verb itself, but the second word in each pair still carries a sense of bonding together, as in the cohesion

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... intentionally left blank The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage PAM PETERS Macquarie University CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, ... New York www.cambridge.org hardback paperback paperback eBook (EBL) eBook (EBL) hardback Contents Preface to The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage page vii Preface to The Cambridge Australian ... X Time Line for the English Language and Australian English 900 References 903 v Preface to The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage Since the first publication of The Cambridge Australian

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... The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languag es edited by Ronald Carter and David Nunan published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge The Pitt ... the `linguistic environment' that serves as the stage for SLA. This environment ± the speakers of the target language and their speech to the L2 learners ± provides linguistic input in the ... complex or lengthened vowel and whether the ending of the syllable can be a vowel or a consonant; 3. tone melodies: the characteristic variations in high, low, rising and falling tones to indicate

Ngày tải lên: 02/08/2015, 13:50

... 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 indicated, ... 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 ... the ways in which American usage differs from British are pointed out Reference Ease of access to the entry sought by the user is a priority of the Guide The division into four sections, explained

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2022, 23:15

... 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 indicated, ... 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 ... the ways in which American usage differs from British are pointed out Reference Ease of access to the entry sought by the user is a priority of the Guide The division into four sections, explained

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2022, 23:56

... Tess's Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the 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 to the entry sought by the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:55

... Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the 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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2012, 13:46

... which there arises uncertainty, difficulty, or 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 ... Tess's Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the 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 ...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 15:15

... philosopher like Heidegger, the other person is just one of many: the they’, the crowd, the mass, the herd. I know all about the other because the other is part of the mass that surrounds and suffocates ... preface. The initial publica- tion was famously criticized by Simone de Beauvoir in the preface to The Second Sex for its understanding of the fem- inine as the other to the masculine. These lectures ... concept. If the other per- son were reducible to the concept I have of him or her, then that would make the relation to the other a relation of knowledge or an epistemological feature. As the two...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... political theme. The most obvious of these is the dynamic of the thriller, which leaves Grace’s fate unclear until the 18 The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000 focus is the ... Mirror 179 Towards Post-Nationalism 182 Chapter 6 Country and Suburbia 188 The Death of the Nature Novel 189 The Re-evaluation of Pastoral 190 The Post-Pastoral Novel 194 The Country in the City ... Nazism, since the principal action occurs in 1939 before war has been declared. The central characters have a plan to flee to the US to escape the totali- tarian state that may result from the continuing...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... differentiated ones; they want to blend the two into “prodices.” Second, consumers don’t want these “prodices” made for them; they want to participate in their cocreation. THE FUTURE OF MARKETING 17 Yes, ... to make the sacrifices these big stores require, the Internet provides an opportunity to wrest back some control by dealing more directly with end users. 38 On the other hand, say our gurus, the ... but hardly tell you anything about the set’s reliability.You don’t ask the salesperson to open the back of the set to in- spect the quality of the components. In the end, you have at best an image of...

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