meaning - Corresponding vs. appropriate - English Language Usage . . . I would suggest looking up the word "correspond" in a dictionary to start with It has another meaning which has nothing to do with letter-writing "Corresponding" is a more specific relationship than "appropriateness", and so could be a better choice in your cases
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
Correct usage of replacing cuss words with symbols I've noticed sometimes there isn't a specific number of symbols but normally the number of symbols correspond to the number of letters in the cuss word E g : Wow dude, you are such an #%-hole!
Free of vs. Free from - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Hello, Dee "So 'free from' is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and 'free of' (which doesn't correspond neatly to 'freedom of') is used to indicate the absence of something: this shampoo is free of parabens " (1) assumes states without support that 'free from' and 'freedom from' correspond closely semantically and (2) would be more felicitously rendered "So 'free from
pronunciation - Could you clarify e and ɛ ? - English Language . . . They correspond to the same phoneme, which may be written either e or ɛ , depending on the dictionary (and sometimes inconsistently in the same dictionary, with e when followed by ɪ and with ɛ otherwise): there are no words, contrary to French, distinguished only by this sound
Whats the difference between afraid of + verb and afraid to + verb? As McCawley 1998 puts it (p 126) Roughly speaking, • that -complements [tensed clauses] correspond to propositions • for-to complements [infinitives] correspond to situation types • 's-ing complements [gerunds] correspond to events Afraid is a psych predicate adjective (formed from the same root as fear and fright) that takes the experiencer of an emotion as its subject, and a
Generic name for places like village, town and cities There is the German word Ort or Ortschaft which is a hypernym for places where people live like villages towns cities etc Is there a correspondent word in English? I don't want to use location or