... 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
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the institution which gave them their degree, male
graduates being designated by the first, and female by
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plural in the normal way, e.g.
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the ... Some of the ways in which
American usage differs from British are pointed out.
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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
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making it more memorable than a...
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Words not ... within the word to connect a prefix or suffix tothe stem. With
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... 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.
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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
...
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named within the text and in the bibliography. Their contributions to our
understanding of the ... Justice
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mentioned above. TheCambridgeGuidetoEnglishUsage aims to bridge the gap
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... normally take plural verbs. See
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at -l/-ll
toto See in toto.
tour de force
This French phrase ... main title, and option (a) for the subtitle, as in:
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English tongue
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to as the topic. The rest of the sentence is then known as the comment. In these
terms the first sentence above...
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formal - to receive / to inform / to assist / to contact
informal - to get / to tell / to help / to get in touch 8
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understand” and to write emails in English that are “easy to understand”.
The problem most people who speak and write English as a ... of
course there’s ways to “not” to ask questions and give
answers too!
Polite Language: Again filtering language that may not seem polite to you is
the best way to understanding the email message....
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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...
... 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
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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.
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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...