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  1. What is the difference between the nouns start and beginning?

    Dec 12, 2014 · The period will start in 15 minutes. vs I can barely remember the beginning of the period. Start has the sense of being a fixed point in time, while beginning could possibly refer to any time …

  2. word choice - "At the beginning" or "in the beginning"? - English ...

    Oct 18, 2012 · Are both expressions "At the beginning" "In the beginning" valid and equivalent? The first "seems wrong" to me, but it has more Google results.

  3. When should we capitalize the beginning of a quotation?

    May 2, 2023 · Basically, I am somewhat confused when a quotation should be capitalized. My understanding is that if a) one quotes the full original sentence and b) this quotation is set off by a …

  4. What is the difference between "begin" and "start"?

    But to "start" marks the actual/exact time of launching an activity (to understand more clearly, consider these two examples: This is just the beginning [meaning, all the initial period] .

  5. grammaticality - Sentences beginning with "so"? - English Language ...

    Sep 26, 2011 · Now, so is commonly used at the beginning of a sentence to mean "as a result" as it was traditionally used, but also with the same meaning as "uh," as an initial attention-getter.

  6. Using "though" at the beginning of the following sentence

    The sentence where you used though at the beginning, seems incomplete. All you can do is, combine the last two sentences by removing the full-stop and starting though with a small t.

  7. 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)". …

  8. Should one use "an" or an "a" before an acronym beginning with the ...

    Oct 15, 2018 · The only thing that counts is how it is pronounced. What word any given letter represents is irrelevant, and so is what that word means, how long it is, whether it's a noun or a verb, or what …

  9. "Further, ..." versus "Furthermore, ..." at the beginning of a sentence ...

    I am not a native speaker (my mother tongue is German). In the context of a technical paper (computer science), is there a difference between starting a sentence with Further, ... and starting it ...

  10. Writing Time at the Beginning of a Sentence

    Oct 25, 2020 · I'm a court reporter and can't move words around. Writing out "Three o'clock" at the beginning of a sentence is a given. What to do when the time is 3:01? And the zero creates an