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Oxford University Press The Oxford Guide To English Usage

... 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 ... Some of the ways in which American usage differs from British are pointed out. 5. Reference. Ease of access to the 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 mere...

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The Oxford Guide To English Usage

... 1.10 by- prefix “Tending to form one word with the following noun, but a hyphen is still frequently found” (ODWE). One word: bygone, byline, byname, bypass, bypath, bystander, byway, byword; the ... 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 ... stuccoes cargoes mementoes tomatoes dingoes mosquitoes tornadoes dominoes mottoes torpedoes echoes Negroes vetoes embargoes noes volcanoes goes peccadilloes grottoes porticoes Words not...

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Tài liệu The Cambridge Guide to Englsih Usage doc

... Justice Michael Kirby (of the High Court of Australia). In the preparatory stages of The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, I was fortunate to be a visiting professor at the Englisches Seminar of the University ... from the Longman corpus of over 40 million words in six registers, to complement or extend the data derived from the BNC and CCAE, mentioned above. The Cambridge Guide to English Usage aims to ... 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 them: rival(l)ed, total(l)ing etc. The...

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The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage phần 10 pot

... normally take plural verbs. See further under agreement section 4. totaled or totalled Whether to double or not to double the l is discussed at -l/-ll toto See in toto. tour de force This French phrase ... main title, and option (a) for the subtitle, as in: The Life and Times of the English 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 these terms the ﬁrst sentence above...