... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE TheOxfordDictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED TheOxfordEnglishDictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... 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 ... speeches put into the mouths of 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...
... 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 ... As the inflexion of the plural of nouns: see plural formation. B. As the inflexion of the third person singular present indicative of verbs, it requires the same changes in the stem as the ... sound followed by the sound of hard g. 1. The single sound is the only one to occur at the end of a word, e. g. in bring furlong song writing 2. The single sound also occurs in the middle of words,...
... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE TheOxfordDictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED TheOxfordEnglishDictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... disagreement. The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage. TheOxford Guide to English Usage has this aim. Within the limits just ... 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...
... 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 ... of English that the migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the partof Britain from which they came, their social class, their age, and the date at whichthey ... Other tenses had to be indicated by the use ofanother verb (such as ‘have’) alongside the verb in question. Furthermore, the simple ‘present’ and ‘past’ tense forms might themselves convey the...