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English Grammar - The Oxford Guide To English Usage

English Grammar - The Oxford Guide To English Usage

Ngày tải lên : 18/10/2013, 15:15
... 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 Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... 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 ... the use of long series of hyphened words. 6. A group of words that has been turned into a syntactic unit, often behaving as a different part of speech from the words of which it is composed,...
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Tài liệu The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics P2 pdf

Tài liệu The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics P2 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 25/01/2014, 13:20
... to the surface of another without absorption. An example is adsorption of water to the surface of a dielectric. This term is often con- fused with ABSORPTION because the spellings of the two words ... determina- tion of current of large dimension, or of the size of the ampere. ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The quantity of electricity that passes through a cir- cuit in one hour when the rate of ... type of radar, the sync delay introduced between trans- mission of the pulse and start of the trace on the indicator screen to eliminate the altitude circle in the display. ALU Abbreviation of...
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Tài liệu The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics P1 pdf

Tài liệu The Illustrated Dictionary of Electronics P1 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 25/01/2014, 13:20
... energy, on account of the motion of the source and/or the detecting apparatus. 3. A small displacement in the appar- ent positions of the stars from month to month on account of the earth’s orbital ... modifying only the address part of an instruction. address field In a computer, the part of the in- struction that gives the address of a bit of data (or a word) in the memory. address generation The programmed ... electrical action of the cell, as distinguished from the sup- porting material of the plates themselves. 2. A ra- dioactive substance. 3. The phosphor coating of a cathode-ray tube screen. 4. The material...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Identifying the Semantic Orientation of Foreign Words" pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Identifying the Semantic Orientation of Foreign Words" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 05:20
... identifying the pos- itive or negative semantic orientation of for- eign words. Identifying the semantic orienta- tion of words has numerous applications in the areas of text classification, analysis of ... bootstrap from words with known polarity to words with unknown polar- ity. They assign any given word the label of its syn- onyms or the opposite label of its antonyms if any of them are known. Kanayama ... polarity, hits w,pos is the number of hits returned by a com- mercial search engine when the search query is the given word and the disjunction of all positive seed words. hits pos is the number of hits when...
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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

Ngày tải lên : 24/03/2014, 02:20
... the 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 ... 2 The target lexicon Given the goal of the toolkit projects to provide a led- con capable of supporting morphological and syntactic analysis of English, there is a precise definition of the ... ~oelieve = . The values of PLU and PER are predictable on the basis of the word grammar rules and need not be independently specified for each entry. On the other hand, the values of SUBCAT...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Oxford Dictionary of English: Current Developments" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "Oxford Dictionary of English: Current Developments" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 24/03/2014, 03:20
... dictionary. 1 Introduction The goal of the project is to enhance the database of the Oxford Dictionary of English (a forthcoming new edition of the 1998 New Oxford Dictionary of English) so that it ... Press, Cambridge, Mass. Judy Pearsall. 1998. The New Oxford Dictionary of English. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 126 matic analysis and grading of defmitions is proving highly productive ... predicated on the original dictionary content, and not the other way round. There has been no attempt to alter the origi- nal content in order to facilitate the generation of formal data. The enhanced...
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the oxford history of english sep 2006

the oxford history of english sep 2006

Ngày tải lên : 11/06/2014, 10:31
... languages they speak will therefore be one of the major themes of this chapter, which will focus on the pre-history of English and the various developments which underpin the creation of English as ... in the past tense forms of a group of strong verbs, of what is known as reduplication; that is, the addition at the beginning of a word of a syllable consisting of the initial consonant of the ... forms of English that the migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the part of Britain from which they came, their social class, their age, and the date at which they...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 00:22
... weather in the center of the storm. The narrator of a documentary film said, “At the eye of the hurricane, the wind can exceed 200 miles an hour.” He, or the writer, was wrong. In the eye, “winds diminish ... the farthest from the Sun.” Furthest is most far in a figurative sense: Of the paint- ings on display, those by Dalí are the fur- thest from reality.” Those cool to the idea of distinguish- ing the ... carried the headline “I can’t get no interaction.” Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try- ing to achieve some kind of effect, be- sides the effect of making the newspaper seem...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 00:22
... Went is the past tense of the verb go. The past participle of go is gone. Therefore a correction of the first exam- ple is either The drug activity went down . . .” (in the past tense) or The drug ... defaced.” The form is the same; it is active, yet the meaning is passive. The subjects do not cause the action; it is thrust upon them. The passive use of the verb have is not new; it is found in the ... the various other theories concerning the alphabet are the hy- potheses that the alphabet was brought by the Philistines from Crete to Palestine, that the various ancient scripts of the Mediterranean...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 ppsx

The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 00:22
... 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 newspaper of the Soviet Communist Party. The ... figure midway in a set of figures arranged in or- der of size. In the set of three just above, the median is 36. (When the number of items is even, the median is the mean of the two figures in the middle.) ... is the sum of a set of figures di- vided by the number of figures in the set. The definitions coincide only for a set of two figures. The mean of 56, 36, and 34 is 42. A statistical term in which the...
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