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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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Dangling “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....

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Compound 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,...

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“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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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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Dangling “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....

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Compound 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,...

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“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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