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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 something affixed to or making up the middle of a word?
- grammaticality - Sentences beginning with so? - English Language . . .
Now, so is commonly used at the beginning of a sentence to mean "as a result" as it was traditionally used, but also with the same meaning as "uh," as an initial attention-getter
- Further, . . . versus Furthermore, . . . at the beginning of a sentence . . .
I am not a native speaker (my mother tongue is German) In the context of a technical paper (computer science), is there a difference between starting a sentence with Further, and starting it
- What is a word that means truncate from the beginning?
I am creating some software that has the concept of truncating a one-dimensional array from either the left or right end I'm happy using the word truncate to describe lopping off the rightmost end
- When do we need to put a comma after so at the beginning of a sentence?
The comma looks too accidental and unpolished So again, the best simple rule-of-thumb is to avoid comma-after-so (indeed comma after any FANBOYS) at the beginning of a sentence, immediately following a semicolon, or immediately following a comma That will nearly always align you with great writers and editors
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