... 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 ... 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...
... 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 ... amistake to bypass the standard English plural for a word that was coined in English anyway. Among the citations in theAustralian National Dictionary (1988) there isonly one for platypi from the ... armor. As pallet it was the name for a tool used by the potter to smooth the clay being worked on the wheel. In modern industries the same spelling (pallet) is the one used for the wooden platform...
... million words insix registers, to complement or extend the data derived from the BNC and CCAE,mentioned above. TheCambridgeGuidetoEnglishUsage aims to bridge the gapbetween traditional and ... 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 ... American and British English the words historic, historical and historian are the most frequent of these exceptional cases, but the tendency goes further in Britain, by the evidence ofmatching...
... sources, The Cambridge GuidetoEnglishUsage draws on the findings of numerous linguistic researchers,named within the text and in the bibliography. Their contributions to ourunderstanding of 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 ... million words insix registers, to complement or extend the data derived from the BNC and CCAE,mentioned above. TheCambridgeGuidetoEnglishUsage aims to bridge the gapbetween traditional and...
... philosopher like Heidegger, the other person is just oneof 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 andsuffocates ... 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 thatwould make the relation tothe other a relation of knowledge or anepistemological feature. As the two...
... 8-connected contour is known, then the rest of the contour can be represented without loss of information by the directions along which the contour propagates, as depicted in Fig. 4.23(a). The initial ... endpoint,if the contour is open, or an arbitrary point, if the contour is closed. The contour can bereconstructed from the directions, if the initial coordinate is known. Since there are onlyeight ... Finally, a full-scale histogram stretch was applied to map the result tothe gray level range (0, 255), since otherwise, the resulting image is notguaranteed to be positive.In the first example, shown...
... If the attributes are within the tolerance window, the amountof penalty associated with the tentative match is proportional tothe disparity in the values of the attributes in the minutiae. The ... interaction is expected to be influenced by the added value of the technology, the sensitivities of the population, and the credibility of the service provider. It is tooearly to predict where, how, ... are mates. The higher the normalized score, the larger the likelihood that the test and template fingerprints are the scans of the samefinger. The results of performance evaluation of the fingerprint...
... 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 ...
... political theme. The most obvious of theseis the dynamic of the thriller, which leaves Grace’s fate unclear until the 18 TheCambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000focus is the ... Mirror 179Towards Post-Nationalism 182Chapter 6 Country and Suburbia188 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...