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- What is the difference between the nouns start and beginning?
The main difference is in the etymology 'Start' comes from Old High German; 'begin' is probably West Germanic We also have 'commence' that came from French, and hence has a connotation of being in a more educated register In use, the difference between 'start' and 'begin' is that 'start' has an idea of suddenness, as in 'startle' 'Begin' implies a process, a sequence of events If you say
- 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
- grammaticality - Using And at the beginning of a sentence - English . . .
I would offer an expansion on those answers concluding that it is not forbidden to start a sentence with "And " The examples thus far are all short sentences which are arguably suited to merging into a single sentence per Chris Browne, excepting the strong emphasis example offered by Sunshine My own frequent usage of "And" is associated with two contexts The first is long sentences that do
- punctuation - When do we need to put a comma after so at the . . .
I noticed that most of the times when the conjunction "so" is used at the beginning of a sentence, it is followed by a comma: So, this gets published but the fact that it is inaccurate gets moder
- What is the word for since the begining of time?
We have the word "eternal" that refers to something that will exist forever, something that never ends, which is related to the word "eternity" that refers to the end of time Is there a similar w
- capitalization - Capitalisation (or not?!) of von and de at start . . .
I am proofreading texts at the moment that feature several people with a 'von' or a 'de' in their surnames, which are generally always lower case However, the author has decided to keep these lowe
- When to use an and when to use a with words begining with h?
If the "h" is pronounced, use "a" If it is silent, use "an" This is in keeping with the general rule, which is to use "an" for words beginning with a vowel sound
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