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- halfway or half way? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Cambridge dictionary lists halfway as one word Hence, using half the way is unusual halfway adjective, adverb in the middle of something, or at a place that is equally far from two other places: New York City is halfway between Boston and Washington, DC I'd like you to look at the diagram that is halfway down page 27
- If I quote only the middle part of a sentence, do I use ellipses?
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- formality - Formal way to tell someone they accidentally sent you . . .
I have received an email from someone at work He’s quite senior and probably would get quite angry to get an “accusing” message like: I wasn’t supposed to get this email It looks like you sent
- Is there some difference between “north-east” and “northeast”?
British English: northeast The northeast is the direction which is halfway between north and east The land to the northeast fell away into meadows ˌnɔːθˈiːst; ˌnɔːrˈiːst NOUN The Wikipedia article on compass directions shows "northeast" but not "north-east" The direction between northeast and north is called "north-northeast"
- meaning - Is it close the door or shut the door? - English Language . . .
See my comments above: essentially, I'd say that close is preferable to shut when grading it, as in shut the door halfway and close the door halfway - the former is almost infelicitous, and definitely questionable
- punctuation - What is the proper way of using triple dots and spaces . . .
Yes, you do put a space in front of three of them, but not in front of four of them The open questions are whether to use three or four, and whether to put spaces not just fore or aft, but between them
- What is a word to describe something that belongs exclusively to or is . . .
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- adjectives - Word for more than several, but less than many - English . . .
All these terms are vague; there is no precise number to them, so there is no accurate comparison However measure words sometimes have somewhat predictable comparisons 'several' is definitely more than 'a few', and 'many' is less than 'most'
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