... dictionary. 1 Introduction The goal ofthe project is to enhance the database of the Oxford DictionaryofEnglish (a forthcomingnew edition ofthe 1998 New OxfordDictionary of English) so that it ... predicated on the original dictionary content, and not the other wayround. There has been no attempt to alter the origi-nal content in order to facilitate the generation of formal data. The enhanced ... for their typicality,125 Oxford Dictionaryof English: Current DevelopmentsJames McCracken Oxford University Pressmccrackj@oup.co.ukAbstractThis research note describes the early stages of...
... 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 whatis known as reduplication; that is, the addition at the beginning of a word of asyllable consisting ofthe initial consonant ofthe ... forms ofEnglish 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 whichthey...
... the utility of the Longman Dictionaryof Contemporary EnglgsA as a suitable source dictionary for the target lexicon. 1 Introduction Within the larger framework ofthe Alvey Programme of ... 2 The target lexicon Given the goal ofthe toolkit projects to provide a led- con capable of supporting morphological and syntactic analysis of English, there is a precise definition ofthe ... source of lexical information. Therefore, rather than batch process the MRD source, the lexicon development software is based around the concept of semi-automatic and rapid construction of entries,...
... television, The level of facticity has dropped on the part of both ofthe candidates,” wasshe using a recognized word? The noun facticity is defined in The OxfordEnglishDictionary as The quality ... the farthest from the Sun.” Furthest is mostfar in a figurative sense: Ofthe paint-ings on display, those by Dalí are the fur-thest from reality.”Those cool to the idea of distinguish-ing the ... weather in the center of the storm. The narrator of a documentary filmsaid, “At the eye ofthe hurricane, the wind can exceed 200 miles an hour.” He,or the writer, was wrong. In the eye,“winds diminish...
... Went is the past tense of the verb go. The past participle of go is gone.Therefore a correction ofthe first exam-ple is either The drug activity wentdown . . .” (in the past tense) or The drug ... the various other theoriesconcerning the alphabet are the hy-potheses that the alphabet wasbrought by the Philistines from Creteto Palestine, that the various ancientscripts ofthe Mediterranean ... [etc.]. . . . Another hypothe-sis, the Ugaritic theory, evolved afteran epoch-making discovery. . . .Among “theories” are several “hypothe-ses”? Another “hypothesis” is a the- ory”? The writers...
... two parts: the topic and the controlling idea.- The topic sentence is the subject ofthe paragraph.Eg: The color yellow is the color of mental activity. The topic: the color yellow- The controlling ... is the Introduction ofthe study which introduces my reasons and aims to write the thesis. This part includes the aims, scopes, methods and design ofthe study.Part B is the main part ofthe ... And the structure is one ofthe features ofthe news story’s paragraph.According to Do Huu Chau [2]: “Structure is an art ofthe performance on content factors ofthe writers. Structurally, the...
... 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) ... are given to illustrate the point being discussed. The majority of these are real, rather than invented, examples. Many of them have been drawn from the works of some ofthe best twentieth-century ... speeches put into the mouths of characters in novels, and hence no censure ofthe style ofthe author is implied. The aim is to illustrate the varieties of usage and to display the best, thereby making...
... As the inflexion ofthe plural of nouns: see plural formation. B. As the inflexion ofthe third person singular present indicative of verbs, it requires the same changes in the stem as the ... consisting of this 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 ... something is predicated (the latter is the predicate). subjective the case of a pronoun typically used when the pronoun is the subject of a clause. subjunctive the mood of a verb denoting what...
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... 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...