... million words in
six registers, to complement or extend the data derived from the BNC and CCAE,
mentioned above. TheCambridgeGuidetoEnglishUsage aims to bridge the gap
between traditional and ... of these, e.g. rival, total, are also used as verbs.
The question then arises as to whether or not we
should double the final l before adding verb endings to
them: rival(l)ed, total(l)ing etc. The ... graduates with
the institution which gave them their degree, male
graduates being designated by the first, and female by
the second. Yet the male term is often used to include
the other, as in the Melbourne...
... 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 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...
...
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 ... within the word to connect a prefix or suffix tothe 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...
... 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
...
... sources, The Cambridge
GuidetoEnglishUsage draws on the findings of numerous linguistic researchers,
named within the text and in the bibliography. Their contributions to our
understanding of the ... Justice
Michael 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 ... million words in
six registers, to complement or extend the data derived from the BNC and CCAE,
mentioned above. TheCambridgeGuidetoEnglishUsage aims to bridge the gap
between traditional and...
... 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 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 these
terms the first sentence above...
... are
set together as one, usually because the second is strongly related tothe first. See
for example:
The news of the proposed devaluation got out; there was an immediate run on
the stock exchange.
In ... taxi, and the visitors did the same.
Note that there are no overtones of commercialese or legalese in such usage; same is
in fact one of the cohesive devices of standard English. (See further under ... describe and evaluate the noun to which they’re attached. They stand
right next to it, even if this delays the predicate of the main clause:
The old computer that we bought at the markets has never...
...
thing is to find the best pictures you can to put you into the feeling and state
of these pictures representing the scenes of your life.
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Other books written by the Author ... you one of the greatest keys tothe Kingdom of
Heaven, the sooner you practice gratitude and faith for the blessings you
have now and which are on their way, the sooner they are going to
manifest ... www.peterdadams.com
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The people who work in these offices often are there because it is their
passion to help others and their job is to find you a job, which is one they
take very seriously.
I...
... arms. The smaller the angle and the closer the arms are to
each other, the more movie clips will be duplicated tothe stage.
4. Use your mouse to drag a pattern onto the stage.
The further ... THE ESSENTIAL GUIDETO FLASH CS4
6
To create a motion tween, we need to convert the image on the screen into a symbol.
6. Clear the Oval tool by clicking on the Selection tool as shown ... triangle next to it on
the Tools panel displays the
available options.
A few tools on the Tools panel let you choose which iteration of the tool you want to
use. These include the
Transform,...
...
water's surface. The adult pair can
now be removed to another
aquarium, together with the mops
from the bottom of the breeding
tank. While the eggs will hatch if
left in the mop, they will be ... wishes to
give birth or retreat from the
attention of a male, but also for
the other fishes in the aquarium
to get out of the way if they want
to. During these bouts of frantic
activity the ... for
their resemblance to twigs). These
herbivores spend most of their
time grazing on algae, and their
body form allows them to blend
into their natural forest creek
biotope, away from the...
... 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 toThe Second Sex for its understanding of the fem-
inine as the other tothe masculine. These lectures ... concept. If the other per-
son were reducible tothe concept I have of him or her, then that
would make the relation tothe other a relation of knowledge or an
epistemological feature. As the two...
... political theme. The most obvious of these
is the dynamic of the thriller, which leaves Grace’s fate unclear until the
18 TheCambridge 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 tothe US to escape the totali-
tarian state that may result from the continuing...