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Hi, how are you....? Where you are now? Where you are now leaving? pls. tell me so that i can know where you are now and where you from? Because as now i really really miss you so so much do you know that? You know i dont know what is image now
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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kimberlykimi
159 days ago
Capital Letters, Conversations, Abbreviations, Constructions, Clauses, Adverbs, Colons, Commas, Contractions, Consonants, Apostrophes, Accents, Adjectives, Context, Conversational
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I wouldn't call it sloppy, I would call it evolving. Every language changes over time and things that were once unacceptable change in nature. Is it really so bad to abbreviate 'should have' into shoulda? You save yourself from
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1. He 's just eaten. (He has just eat e n.) 2. An average of one baby 's kidnapped every day. (An average of one baby is kidnapped every day) Same as 5. 3. The fish 's eaten yesterday. (The fish was eaten yesterday) No contraction for
ESL General English Grammar Questions
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califjim
297 days ago
Plurals, Abbreviations, Possessives, Spelling, Contractions, Animals, Speaking, Chat, Friendships, Styles, Conversational
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With tongue firmly in cheek, here are some rules to keep in mind when using the Queen's English: 1. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. 2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. 3. And don't start a sentence with a
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rootlesstree
305 days ago
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Hello ,,, here is some Medical Shortcuts ACGME Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education CSA Clinical Skills Assessment ECFMG Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates FSMB Federation of State Medical Boards GME
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I think the p's and q's argument is most salient here. The apostrophe is used for the sake of clarity. While conventionally used for the possessive, the apostrophe is also used to indicate vernacular omissions and contractions, such as in
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I've returned this thread to "regular" format, as the "question and answer" format can cause confusion, in a discussion of this kind, with a compound question. In response to the original question, I would agree with Forbes
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Hi,
Simply put, an acronym is an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word.
eg FBI is an abbreviation. We pronounce each letter separately, thus eff bee eye
eg NATO is an acronym. We pronounce it as a word naytoe , not as enn eh tee oh
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So, USMC for United States Marine Corps is both a abbreviation and also acronym? Can I say acronym is a special case of abbreviation since acronym is abbreviated and left with only initials?
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acronym: just initials
abbreviation: shortening (cut some of the final letters, etc)
contraction: some of the middle letters can be removed too
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