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halfway or half way? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Whether the halfway word is defined on English dictionaries as an adverb adjective mostly used to indicate that someone or something is At or to a point equidistant between two others, I'm usually drawn to sentences such as the following: I'm half way finishing the translation I'm half way in to the second season I'm half way there
If I quote only the middle part of a sentence, do I use ellipses? No, you would leave out the ellipses there The Purdue OWL has a page about this; it lists this example: According to Foulkes's study, dreams may express 'profound aspects of personality' Even if you aren't quoting Peter's remarks in their entirety, you don't need to use ellipses, because your sentence is structured in a way that shows you are only using a small segment of his overall
Is it close the door or shut the door? [closed] See my comments above: essentially, I'd say that close is preferable to shut when grading it, as in shut the door halfway and close the door halfway - the former is almost infelicitous, and definitely questionable Also: close up and shut up don't allow substitution because they're idiomatic
punctuation - What is the proper way of using triple dots and spaces . . . Note that at least one important US style does sometimes put a space before four dots (as well as between and after): specifically, legal "Blue Book" style specifies four dots with a leading space when a quotation cuts off the end of one sentence, and then continues with another sentence So a regularly spaced ellipsis (3 dots, spaces before, after, and between) is then followed by a period
Is there some difference between “north-east” and “northeast”? British English: northeast The northeast is the direction which is halfway between north and east The land to the northeast fell away into meadows ˌnɔːθˈiːst; ˌnɔːrˈiːst NOUN The Wikipedia article on compass directions shows "northeast" but not "north-east" The direction between northeast and north is called "north-northeast"
Word for more than several, but less than many Here's where French wins out They have any number of words that express approximate quantities that are more than several but fewer than many: une dizaine (around 10), une douzaine (12), une quinzaine (15), une vingtaine (20), etc I often find myself wanting to say "there are a twenty of those " in English