... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
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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. 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 ...
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