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- What is the difference between the nouns start and beginning?
If you say "Shall we begin?" is more relaxed, and implies that something has been organised, and the beginning has a schedule following it You could maybe think of it that a 'start' is a transition from one state to another, and a 'beginning' is the origin of a continued path, journey, or process
- 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
- Is there a word meaning append, but at the beginning, not the end?
Location zero would be at the beginning, location 1 is after the first character, etc Thus, my practical answer to your question in a programming context is that the opposite of "append" is "insert (0)"
- grammaticality - Using And at the beginning of a sentence - English . . .
As a writer, I use "And" at the beginning of sentences in novels I take (what I consider) this poetic license typically to emphasize a thought in a narrative or to more closely mimic informal speech
- Alternatives to then, next (at the beginning of the phrase) in . . .
What is the nature of the items being enumerated with these words? What determines the order: is it chronology, a logical argument, a ranking in order of importance? How long is the description of each of them in the paper? All of these affect how you might introduce each point I don't necessarily read "Then" and "Next" as informal
- When do we need to put a comma after so at the beginning of a sentence?
Of those 871 instances, 465 were at the beginning of a sentence; 51 immediately followed a semicolon; and 355 immediately followed a comma Link to Full Tabulation (PDF) Although in my experience, So-comma was sometimes seen earlier than 2000 in under-edited business writing, it is mostly a child of the 2000s
- Is there a difference in meaning between from the beginning and . . .
11 I think from the beginning puts a little more emphasis and focus on the significance of the beginning If you were talking about a business, perhaps "he" was there in the planning process and integral to starting the business Since the beginning places more emphasis on the intervening time period
- conjunctions - Can I use but at the beginning of a sentence . . .
For a while, using but to start a sentence was largely frowned upon But, I think it is possible to use but at the beginning of a sentence, as long as it isn't overused Am I right?
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