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  2. What, exactly, is the point of beginning a sentence with...

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/122122/what-exactly-is-the-point-of...

    I explained this in a comment and got 3 negative votes! Well, I guess this is why we need more sites like this one because the basic sentence is being forgotten and is being reborn as a sentence fragment. This also raises that issue of pausing when speaking. Commas can separate clauses (etc). You should pause between clauses.

  3. 8-in-1 sentence - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/258653

    This works for pretty much any sentence, provided you limit it to meaningful words; it's called Contrastive Stress and it implicitly compares whatever's stressed with its opposite, in context. No. 4 doesn't work because the did is an automatic auxiliary, required by negation but having no individual meaning, which therefore has no opposite to ...

  4. yet2 has a totally different meaning. It is a conjunction (or better a sentence introduction) introducing a sentence that expresses an idea contrary to the statement in the preceding sentence. 2 A waiter of a small Italian restaurant about his job: The pay isn't good. Yet it is a job. This yet2 has the meaning of "but", but the contrast is ...

  5. writing style - using the word "meaning" in a sentence to explain...

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    I have the following sentence: This process is circuitous, meaning, the responsibility returns to the Originator user after all is approved. A few questions: I know this would be a fully understood sentence in speech, but is it proper to write like this in a User Guide, for example? Is the punctuation correct ?

  6. The verb is always the nucleus of a clause. A phrase is any "functional group" of a clause. A sentence is one clause, or a group of clauses. Of course, provided that the expressions have sense. For example, the verb "to eat" needs a subject; thus, "to eat" isn't a clause, but "I eat" is. A more common clause perhaps is: "I eat pasta".

  7. 10. " Of which " is part of a relative clause. " Which " is the relative pronoun and " of " is a preposition placed at the beginning of the relative clause, instead of at the end. A few examples of this construction are: She discovered so many spiders, of which she was most afraid.

  8. When is it appropriate to end a sentence in a preposition?

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    "With" is a preposition and ends the sentence, but it is not the case that it has no object. The object is "rule", which occurred earlier in the sentence. You could, of course, write, "I can't put up with that rule." It doesn't change the strict meaning of the sentence.

  9. Understanding "as of", "as at", and "as from"

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/112770/understanding-as-of-as-at-and-as-from

    1. AS OF would mean "at a certain time onward". AS AT would mean "at a precise time of event". AS FROM would mean "at a certain time onward" just like AS OF, but I still don't quite get it. That leads me to go back and use SINCE. Much simpler and people use it in writings and speeches.

  10. meaning - “Incentive” used in a sentence - English Language &...

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    1. “The extra money for hardworking employees is my incentive to work hard.”. This means "The thing that motivates me is that other people get money for working hard." “The extra money is my incentive to work hard.”. This means that you are motivated to work hard by extra money. Share.

  11. When is it necessary to use "have had"?

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/4870

    111. "Have had" is using the verb have in the present perfect tense. Consider the present tense sentence: I have a lot of homework. This means that I have a lot of homework now. On the other hand, we use the present perfect tense to describe an event from the past that has some connection to the present. Compare the following two sentences: I ...