- 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
- 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
- Can hence be used at the beginning of a sentence?
Sentences beginning with hence, thus, and therefore are extremely common in academic writing Searching COCA for a period followed by thus gets a staggering 23,086 hits! Such sentences even occur on the Chicago Manual of Style web site: Hence a car owned by John and Jim can be expressed as “John and Jim’s car ”
- Using though at the beginning of the following sentence
The sentence where you used though at the beginning, seems incomplete All you can do is, combine the last two sentences by removing the full-stop and starting though with a small t
- 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
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