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- What is the difference between the nouns start and beginning?
The period will start in 15 minutes vs I can barely remember the beginning of the period Start has the sense of being a fixed point in time, while beginning could possibly refer to any time between the start and the halfway point
- word choice - At the beginning or in the beginning? - English . . .
Are both expressions "At the beginning" "In the beginning" valid and equivalent? The first "seems wrong" to me, but it has more Google results
- When should we capitalize the beginning of a quotation?
Basically, I am somewhat confused when a quotation should be capitalized My understanding is that if a) one quotes the full original sentence and b) this quotation is set off by a colon, semi-colo
- suffixes - beginning is to prefix as end is to suffix as . . .
The word "prefix" describes something affixed to the beginning of a word and the word "suffix" describes something affixed to the end of a word What is the analog of these for
- Interpreting Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and . . .
Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop The "go on in till you come to the end" seems to suggest hard work and determination till you reach your goal But I feel I'm missing a few nuances here—in particular, the significance of "gravely" and "stop" How would you interpret this quote?
- grammaticality - Using And at the beginning of a sentence - English . . .
But recently, I have seen so many prints, either in entertainment or in academia, where "And" is popularly used in the beginning of a sentence It seems like the author is trying to connect the sentence just right before and the sentence following "And" in some intended meaning which I don't quite get
- word choice - Start vs. begin, finish vs. end - English . . .
23 I am not a native speaker and I have came up with a problem of using start vs beginning Which one is more proper to indicate a date (year)? For example: The year in which physiotherapy treatment has begun The year in which physiotherapy treatment has started And the same goes for finish end The year in which physiotherapy treatment has
- How to know if the beginning of a word is a true prefix
What's your definition of a true prefix? English has various categories of prefix - there are productive prefixes, non-productive prefixes, prefixes in words taken from other languages (where if you know the language you may be able to form a new English word), prefixes which don't seem to change the meaning of words (con-), as well as compound words where the first part is a word in its own
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