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- What is the difference between summarizes and summarises?
Note: this page in the Wikipedia contains a long list of words that end with "ize" or "ise" depending on whether the usage is American English or British English You will find words like summarize (ise), organize (ise), authorize (ise) and many others there
- Opposite of summarize - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Expound on or expound upon: This comes to mind for use in a situation where one wants to add considerable detail to information provided in a summarized form For example, I would like to expound on the information provided in this email
- Differences between summary, abstract, overview, and synopsis
Are there subtle differences in meaning between the nouns summary, abstract, overview, and synopsis? Which would be the most appropriate term for a one-page "executive summary" of a research repor
- Is there a difference in meaning between aggregate and aggregated?
The word is meant to be used as a description of the summarized number count of something (e g aggregate (d) consumption of heating oil, consumed by all households in a country)
- grammaticality - Which is correct: the below information or the . . .
I frequently see statements that refer to something later in the text that use a phrase such as "the below information" Is it more correct instead to say "the information below" (or "the following
- Opposite of summary - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the opposite of summary as in a Summary Report or A Summary? Common suggestions are Exposition but that doesn't seem right at all, and other suggestions I find in a search are just antonyms
- What is the correct punctuation after as follows?
Semicolons to separate the chapters, as proposed in another answer, is certainly a valid approach However, I'd like to answer from a different angle - one that comes from my experience with lists in technical writing, where they are very common First of all, the right punctuation after "as follows" is a colon There's no way around that "Follows" or "following" is the indicator You could
- grammar - Starting a sentence with In which - English Language . . .
The practice comes from chapter headings of about a hundred years ago, which commonly summarized the chapter the reader was about to read The best-known examples are Winnie-the-Pooh, with chapter headings like:
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