The syllable division of such words is generally done after the consonant, i.e, as VC-V. Here are a few examples: salad /sæl-əd/ lemon /lem-ən/ never /nev-ər/ balance /bæl-əns/ This division is in agreement with the notion that generally, a short vowel do not end a syllable.

2011年3月1日 · Per Strunk and White's Elements of Style, p. is used to denote 1 page, pp. to denote a range of pages. This form of citation is used when you are using brief/in text citations.

Should it be apposed or opposed in testing for non failure as apposed to success? I initially thought it should be apposed, because opposed seems to suggest opposition. Interestingly Chromium flags

2014年3月21日 · Update (June 23, 2017): More on 'U.S.' vs. 'US' Having belatedly acquired the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (2010), I should note that it has substantially altered its views on the use of U.S. versus US from what they were seven years earlier (see above).

2010年9月22日 · Thee, thou, and thine (or thy) are Early Modern English second person singular pronouns.Thou is the subject form (nominative), thee is the object form, and thy/thine is the possessive form.

2017年10月21日 · An exception is when a certain situation is somehow different than the normal rule.. An exemption is a case when some rule doesn't apply at all.

2020年7月26日 · Now, let's look at a word that doesn't become plural by adding an "-s." "One man" changes to "two men." If we wanted to say that a car belonged to one man, we would say: "the car is the man's."

2016年2月4日 · This is quite confusing! In the Standard IPA vowel chart, there are /e/ and /ɛ/. See the below picture: (Source: Wikipedia) However, many American English vowel charts don't have /e/.

2011年4月26日 · obverse: the front side of a coin (as opposed to the reverse). converse and inverse in mathematical logic take a conditional hypothesis and swap or negate its clauses, respectively:

What are the differences in meaning and usage between "to start" and "to get started"? Are there any cases in which these variants are not interchangeable? I feel that there are. For example, this...