By Numbers, Abbreviations

By long established custom references to books and other stand-alone documents (nonperiodicals) give the place of publication followed by the name of the publisher in references. By custom references to articles in periodicals dispense with this information. But since an article is a part of a...

K is often used to represent the number 1000 without necessarily referring to grams metres etc Another point on abbreviations as we re abbreviating in any case is it essential to put

Hi, (correct me if possible)I raised my butt (<<< not a terribly rude word, but please don't say it when you are sitting at my dinner table) from the couch and picked up/ got a grammar book. The first thing I saw (or had seen? No) was 'don't use 'the' before noun + number'. It's time...

(correct me if possible)I raised my butt from the couch and took a grammar book. The first thing I saw (or had seen?) was 'don't use 'the' before noun + number'. It's time to read it again. Sentence ex. (GR='green road'):If the length of a GR is less or equal to the length of the according RR...

The challenges that you have faced (if the topic was given to you in the way you have written it above then the person testing your English has a few problems too!) Challenges make people tough and develop physically and mentally. In terms of my experiences, the biggest challenge was completing...

Hi. I will take job interview and have English exam. So now I am practising for it. Could you please read my essay and check it? The topic is the challenging that you have faced it. This is not all of my essay because it is longer so I just wanna ask you to check my main parts of sentences. I...

Anonymous wrote: Many thanks for your reply Nona. I would like to clarify the use of messieurs furthermore: 1) I see a lot of time in contract agreement that the abbreviation of messieurs is M/s, why is that? 2) when you address a company as messieurs, does that mean that you are...

Okay, business rules it is. For example, a business could require that every customer that get entered have a phone number, so that if you entered customer information without a phone number, it won't let you save and move on to the next operation. Most databases will already have constraints...

This is my version which agrees with your points, Kajjo. To (in order to) increase the octane number, the following lead compounds are added to the petrol for motor vehicle and airplane engines: tetraethyl lead (TEL) and tetramethyl lead (TML), in a solution of so called ethyl liquid (the...

Antonija wrote:Due to an increase in octane number, following lead compounds are added to the petrol for engine/motor vehicles and airplanes: tetraethyl lead (TEO) and tetramethyl lead (TMO), in the composition of so called ethyl liquid (the mixture of tetraethyl lead, ethil bromide,...