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2020
Grammar and usage
Specifying the present time
I take it that the Golden Drugget is not outspread nowanights across the high dark coast road. — Max Beerbohm, The Golden Drugget, 1918 (in And Even Now, 1921) Nowadays…
Andrew Goodall
3 min read
2019
Grammar and usage
hard, hardly
This post was prompted upon being encouraged by a Czech acquaintance of mine with the words that I would “have to hardly work on my paper” that had an imminent…
Andrew Goodall
3 min read
Grammar and usage
in particular, particularly
The phrase in particular when used as a conjunctive adverb may appear at the beginning, middle or end of the sentence (cf. however): ‘The last chapters, in particular, are a…
Andrew Goodall
3 min read
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