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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 10 pot

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 10 pot

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... 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 the English 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...
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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 9 pps

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 9 pps

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... areset together as one, usually because the second is strongly related to the first. Seefor 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 isin fact one of the cohesive devices of standard English. (See further under ... 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...
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Guide To English Usage

Oxford University Press The Oxford Guide To English Usage

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... 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 ... English Usage (edn. 2, revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED 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...
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The Oxford Guide To English Usage

The Oxford Guide To English Usage

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... 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...
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English Grammar - The Oxford Guide To English Usage

English Grammar - The Oxford Guide To English Usage

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... 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 English ... 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 ... English Usage (edn. 2, revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED The...
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the britannica guide to modern china

the britannica guide to modern china

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... forcescontinued to win important victories. By mid-1938 Japanesearmies controlled the railway lines and major cities of northernChina. They took Guangzhou on October 12, stopping the railway supply line to ... Zhejiang.This is followed, to the south, by the Fuzhou, or NorthernMin, language of northern and central Fujian and by the Xiamen-Shantou (Amoy-Swatow), or Southern Min, languageof southern Fujian, eastern-most ... andmigration had raised the proportion of Han in Xinjiang to about two-fifths of the total. Efforts to control the growth oflarge cities led to the resettlement in the countryside of some 20million...
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the oxford guide to style apr 2002

the oxford guide to style apr 2002

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... text or notes, the list should appear in the front rather than the back of the work, as it is easier for the reader to refer to in the prelims. (If it is in the endmatter there is a ... Gowers, The Complete Plain Words (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987). Sidney Greenbaum, The Oxford English Grammar (Oxford: OUR 1996). Tom McArthur (ed.), The Oxford Companion to the English ... determined by the moulds the paper was made in and the use the result was put to. While many hundreds of
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Tài liệu Peters - The Cambridge Guide to English Usage pptx

Tài liệu Peters - The Cambridge Guide to English Usage pptx

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... 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 ... the lesser stop marking the abbreviation.This is in keeping with the normal convention (seemultiple punctuation). By the same token, it masks the editorial decision as to whether the abbreviationshould ... 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. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage aims to...
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