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... disagreement The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage The Oxford Guide to English Usage has this aim Within the limits just ... thing to use language; it is quite another to understand how it works (Anthony Burgess, Joysprick) English usage is a subject as wide as the English language itself By far the greater part of usage, ... 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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... proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage The Oxford Guide to English Usage has this aim Within the limits just indicated, it ... Interesting Articles waiting for you * The Ebook starts from the next page : Enjoy ! * Say hello to my cat "Meme" Trang 2 The Oxford Guide to English Usage CONTENTS Table of Contents ... 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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... or disagreement The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve these problems, rather thandescribe the whole of current usage The Oxford Guide to English Usage has this aim Within the limits just ... ErnestGowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... singular possessive, e g Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the plural in the normalway, e g the Joneses' dog the Thomases' dog French

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... realia to make the classroom come alive and resemble more closely the outside world Use of these tools can free the teacher to be more the observer and facilitator and free the children to learn to ... that the teacher should use English in the class room naturally as if they were in their society To make situation of the teaching of English to children (young learners) communicative, the English ... fact, the English teachers in elementary school need theoretical bases on learning English to young learners Having theories on teaching-learning English to young learners, they will be able to

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... not do their work well On the contrary, they did so thorough a job that the results were too many to be assimilated all at once The modern reader has to admire the logic of their thinking, ... other similar words The delegates had to persuade their countrymen on the other side of the Atlantic, and in this they largely failed At that time, when the British Empire was at the ... if the noun is plural, the apostrophe is added after the s If the. .. Webster’s time there have been a number of attempts to reform, or at least to improve, English spelling They

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... of the options (b) to (d) can be used for the 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 ... presence in the community, not through any desire to endorse them. Note that the negative form for both tolerance and toleration is intolerance. ton, tonne or tun The word ton belongs to the imperial ... it too is ultimately the same word. 806 topic The word tonnage relates to tons and the imperial system, and there’s not yet an equivalent for tonnes in the metric system. One could suggest tonneage,

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... reference material out of the ongoing discussion. Only a superscript number intervenes to guide your eye to the bottom of the page, or to the end of chapter/book when you’re ready The numerals for footnotescan ... (1986) and the Macquarie (2005), and there are citations for it in the Oxford Dictionary from 1949 on, though they’re said to be “erroneous” The citations in Webster’s English Usage go back to 1926, ... are set together as one, usually because the second is strongly related to the first Seefor example: The news of the proposed devaluation got out; there was an immediate run on the stock exchange.

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... references to the distinctive battle formation used by the Greeks and Macedonians (men packed together underoverlapping shields) But for the anatomist who uses the word to mean any of the bones of the ... tested by the doctor for HIV antibodies. Even in this form, the passive seems to downplay the agent, not allowing it to take up the more prominent position at the start of the sentence (see further ... keeps the form and style of the original work, or the genre towhich it belongs, and applies them to rather different subject matter In the examplebelow, Dorothea Mackellar’s romantic poem about the

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... quite a few of the Oxford citations show it, whether they refer to the shoe, or to the plant or animal which also embody the name The spelling with one c seems to come closer to the original Indian ... what caused the accident Making the order of a narrative match the order of happening is the simplest way for the speaker to relate the story,and for the listener to digest it—as long as there’s ... adjective does not Compare: They gave minimum time to their patients. They gave minimal time to their patients. The first sentence seems to say that the amount of time given to patients was only as

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... needs to identify and frame the topic to be discussed, with some indication as to the stages in which it will be treated, or the ultimate destination of the argument. The longer the document, the ... international English The idea of “international English” has a lot of appeal to publishers and others who seek to market English language products to the world at large. It appeals also to teachers ... mark the religious identity of Israelis and others round the world, and therefore correspond to Christian,... Scots, the English of the Protestants of Northern Ireland which owes rather

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... communicatingthan in overwhelming their readers with long words Whether they aim to impress or to cover their tracks, what they offer the reader is verbal fog: The departmental reaction to the municipal government ... distinctions, the system seems to have broken down for hence/hither/here—just as it has for thence/thither/there and whence/whither/ where In each case the third is the only one to survive in common English, ... wasextended in the middle of the nineteenth century to refer to the goldminer’s shack or stockman’s hut, but it seems nowadays to have contracted to the Aboriginalsense During the nineteenth

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... illustrator operator precipitator radiator spectator With other Latin verb groups, the endings are increasingly mixed Older agentives such as conductor, contributor, director, instructor and investor ... connoting the heinousness of a deed or event Compare: The enormity of the crime made the people take the law into their own hands With the enormousness of the calculations, the computer crashed. The ... “and the rest” or “and the others”, implying a known set of items which might be used to complete the list preceding it It relieves the writer of the need to list them, and calls on the reader to

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... grammatical terms they link together main clauses (see further under clauses). They appear at the head of a clause, and allow the subject following them to be deleted if it’s the same as the one just ... ordered the ship back to port The narrative keeps the ship in the spotlight—in the topic position in both sentences (see further under topic) In their respective writing contexts the ... beyond the sentence itself If we rewrite the sentences to eliminate the dangling participles we lose the topicalising effect they have Any sentence in which the. .. to acquit the

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... of these correspond to the modals in meaning but are often if not always followed by the to- infinitive: Marginal modals ought to need (to) used to dare (to) Semi-auxiliaries have to be able to ... related to the verb cohere (“stick together”) None of them retain the literal meaning of the verb itself, but the second word in each pair still carries a sense of bonding together, as in the cohesion ... English elements, and the same animal or bird might be referred to either way So the dingo was also the native dog, the kookaburra was the laughing jackass or settler’s clock, and the koala the

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... than hitherto, and The Cambridge Australian English Style Guide aims to map this widened range of options in the 1990s—and to subject the older canons of English usage to fresh scrutiny in the light ... blankTrang 3The Cambridge Guide to Australian English UsageTrang 5The Cambridge Guideto Australian English Usage PAM PETERS Macquarie University Trang 6Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, ... what they will present as thenorms of the language, to equip their students with the essentials as well as ensurethat their knowledge is robust enough to cope with the vagaries of actual usage (Theinclusion

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... formal - to receive / to inform / to assist / to contact informal - to get / to tell / to help / to get in touch 8 Formal Email (very formal) Informal Email Trang 10Abbreviations: The use of ... in English when the writer of the message is using English as a 2nd language This problem is compounded when both the writer of the email and the reader of the email message are both using English ... basic tools and tips to reading emails that have been written in English as a 2nd language Learn the secrets to writing emails in English that are easy to write, easy to read and easy to understand

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