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... the word... “their ought to be a law.” Make it there (the adverb), not “their” (the possessive pronoun) Sometimes they’re, the contraction of they are, is confused with one or the other ... by the scientific community In view of the abundance of alternative explanations for the creation of the alphabet, hypothesis would seem to be an... Among the various other theories ... lamps.” Probably of Teutonic origin, the word came to Middle English from the French gai. The use of gay in the above senses dates back at least to 1310, antedating Chaucer, The Oxford English Dictio-

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... condition It often means to the interior of (a place); from the outside to the inside of (the place) “The children are jumping into the pond” clearly indicates their movement from the banks to the water ... about the singularity of kind of goes for class of, sort of, and type of See TYPE. See also THEM and THOSE. 2 Improperly used with A or AN Another source of criticism is the in-trusion of a or ... Among the items kept there are thediary of Nazi propaganda chiefJoseph Goebels, an X-ray of AdolphHitler’s skull and the first edition ofPravda, the newspaper of the SovietCommunist Party The latter

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... persons, not to three or more “Neither of the two boys” / “neither of the couple” / “neither of the pair” are correct “Her feelings were very hurt that neither of the three of us showed up” (said by ... “Little choice”? The Americans had the choice of not blowing them out of the sky; the choice of talking instead of shooting; the choice of going home Life presents most of us with in-numerable choices, ... fission, the principle of the atomic bomb and civil atomic energy, and nuclear fusion, the principle of the hydrogen bomb In fission, the nuclei of atoms are split; in the process, part of their

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... explaining that ifthe user presses “Up/Down Arrow” (meaning either the up arrow or the down arrow), the curser will move to “The top/bottom of the screen” ing the top or bottom of the screen re-spectively) ... languages None of them are racial groups, so they are not “typical of the racial mix” in Russia, which extends to the Orient and does contain different races 2 Races of the U.S.A. Citizens of the United ... enlargement of executive privi-lege, from his theory of impoundment to his theory of the pocket veto, from his calculated disparagement of the cabinet and his calculated discrediting of the press

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... the lieutenant hauled off ” Next, the sequence of two events is mistakenly reversed by the use of the present perfect instead of the past perfect: The Mohajir group called the ... singular noun Any of these work: those kinds of law or that kind of law or laws of that kind See also KIND OF, 1; Pronouns, 2 (misuse of them); THESE and THOSE THEMSELVES and SELF.” ... Pronouns, 5 “THEM- THEN See FORMER; THAN THEORY See HYPOTHESIS and THEORY 430 there, anticipatory THERE, anticipatory See Expletives THERE confused with THEIR See Homophones THERE in contractions...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... transitive Only the last has an object (them). For the younger ones, Emma wastheir mother-figure, who fed, dressed,bathed, and put them to bed The verb put goes with to bed The ject, them, is locked ... affirmed the judgment of the lower court Another book says, “The Court of Appeals, after a careful review of the record, reversed.” Inasmuch as the latter book is for laymen, reversed the judgment, a ... intro-duced by the expression along with, as well as, in addition to, together with, or just with does not affect the number of the verb By that view, the expression ther is not a part of the subject

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... but also to offer the curious reader interesting facts about the origins of phrases and examples of their use This second edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms is based on the first edition, ... humankind then raging in the wake of the j publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin i j of Species (1859): 'Is man an ape or an angel? j j Now I am on the side of the angels' (The Times ... (8)OXFORD U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S Great Clarendon Street, Oxford 0x2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford It furthers the University's objective of

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2021, 11:23

... Put the cart before the Trang 14 Take the bull by the The ball's in your The best of both The bottom The cat's out of the The elephant in the The last The straw that broke the camel's ... taste of his own Got up on the wrong side of the Got started off on the wrong Got wind Go with the Have your cake and eat it Hit the Hit the ground Hit the nail on the Hold the purse ... Origin: From the early 1400s Rich men used to hire people to beat the bushes when they went hunting to scare the birds out ofthem so that they could shoot them Let's not beat around the blame lies

Ngày tải lên: 10/10/2022, 10:17

... note the two cs and one m accusative case The case of a noun or pronoun that is the object of a verb or is governed by a preposition Me, him, her, us, and them are the accusative forms of the ... limousine Other abbreviations made by cutting off the end of the word are not used in speech, for example adv for adverb and cont for continued If these need to be read aloud, they are read as the ... to the Common Market as the EC rather than the EEC, than it became the EU Generally it is acceptable to write abbreviations either with or without full stops, but the trend is towards leaving them

Ngày tải lên: 27/08/2016, 16:44

... medica: the basis of the vast majority of the drugs and medi-cines that they would one day prescribe to their patients. Lowson’s Textbook of botany was the bible that linked their profession with the ... presence of non-starch polysaccha-rides in the food; (d) the form of the food, e.g finely ground versus large particles of grain; (e) the cooking method; and (f) the presence of other nutrients in the ... outlets The amount of relevant literature, in the form ofbooks, research papers, the Internet, magazines, andothers, is very great In this work, a list of references forfurther reading is given; these

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2013, 17:51

... 3. The ALPHA or BETA of a bipolar transistor. 4. In the operation of an electron tube, the ratio of the derivative (instantaneous rate of change) of the plate voltage to the derivative of the ... type of radar, the sync delay introduced between trans- mission of the pulse and start of the trace on the indicator screen to eliminate the altitude circle in the display. ALU Abbreviation of ... determina- tion of current of large dimension, or of the size of the ampere. ampere-hour Abbreviations: Ah, amp-hr. The quantity of electricity that passes through a cir- cuit in one hour when the rate of

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 17:20

... receive most of their schooling in English or French, depending on the area of the country in which they live Because the major-ity of provinces in Canada offer educational instruction in English, ... published studies of the English literacy of children in Canada who are English language learners (ELLs) with the goal of understanding the read-ing development of ELLs and characteristics of readread-ing ... whether their development of literacy skills differs in significant ways from children who are native speakers of English The purpose of the present review is to evaluate the re-search on the

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 04:20

... number of parame- Trang 14ters in the model Increasing the complexity of the model will only improve the AIC if the fit (measured by the log-likelihood of the data) improves more than the cost ... the true model, -2 times the likelihood for the data given the model plus a constant multiple (2) of the number of parameters in the model Since the first term, involving the unknown true model, ... the loss of precision in a model when substituting data-based estimates of the parameters of the model for the correct values The equation for this loss includes a constant term, defined by the

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20

... the railway timetable represents the underlying structure of the running of trains, it doesn’t tell us whether the trains are red or yellow These are part of the physical characteristics of the ... knowledge of the phonotactic principles that liebehind the distribution of the English consonant system – the topic of the next chapter (You’ll find more about the distribution of English consonants ... furthermore, both tures are comprised of a cover and some inside leaves of paper, but thefunction of the manila folder is to hold the final draft of a pamphlet ofpoems, while the function of the

Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2014, 01:09

... way of telling someone they have no chance A fat head is a dull, stupid person When the fat hits the fire, trouble breaks out Fat of the land Living off the fat of the land means having the ... something at the drop of a hat, you'd do it immediately (USA) If you are at the end of your rope, you are at the limit of your patience or endurance (UK) If you are at the end of your tether, you ... chew the cud, you think carefully about something If you chew the fat with someone, you talk at leisure with them If someone is a chip off the old block, they closely resemble one or both of the

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 09:59

... 726–52 head of, 730–31, 738, 745n1 syntactic relation of governance among elements of, 730–33 themes for next decade regarding, 744–45 variation of, 729–33 Relational grams boundedness of, 730, ... NLT. See Neural Theory of Language Nominal classification, 676–96. See also Classifier(s) categorization, CL and, 690–92 central problems of, 686–90 systems of, 678–86 systems of, from world to ... about, 957 gestures and nature of, 947–48 lexical diffusion of, 952, 953t, 954 perceptually motivated, 955–56 specifying class of, 946–47 theoretical consequences of lexically and phonetically

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 01:20