Books on grammar, usage, and writing
Grammar Handbooks Alexander, L. G. Longman English Grammar. London: Longman, 1988. Crews, Frederick. The Random House Handbook. 4th ed. New York: Random House, 1984. Fernald, James G. English Grammar...
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Compound adjectives constructed from a noun plus the past participle of a verb are used frequently in English. Consider, for example, the sentence The skiers raced down the snow-covered slopes. Here,...
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View ArticleBooks on grammar, usage, and writing
Grammar Handbooks Alexander, L. G. Longman English Grammar. London: Longman, 1988. Crews, Frederick. The Random House Handbook. 4th ed. New York: Random House, 1984. Fernald, James G. English Grammar...
View ArticleDangling “followed”
Pick up any usage book and you’ll be sure find a discussion of dangling participles. Participles are formed from verbs but act as adjectives, and as such, they require an appropriate noun to modify....
View ArticleCompound adjectives formed with “adsorbed” and “immobilized”
Compound adjectives constructed from a noun plus the past participle of a verb are used frequently in English. Consider, for example, the sentence The skiers raced down the snow-covered slopes. Here,...
View Article“A” or “An” with abbreviations? It depends.
Scientific papers tend to contain lots of abbreviations—acronyms, initialisms,* gene symbols and protein designations, element and isotope symbols, chemical formulas, and so on—and authors sometimes...
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