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  1. 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.

  2. 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 …

  3. grammaticality - Using "And" at the beginning of a sentence - English ...

    Jan 29, 2014 · But recently, I have seen so many prints, either in entertainment or in academia, where "And" is popularly used in the beginning of a sentence. It seems like the author is trying to connect the …

  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. 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 …

  6. 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)". Note …

  7. Alternatives to "then", "next" (at the beginning of the phrase) in ...

    Mar 23, 2018 · What is the nature of the items being enumerated with these words? What determines the order: is it chronology, a logical argument, a ranking in order of importance? How long is the …

  8. How is Æ pronounced at the beginning of a word? Or is that simply a ...

    Jun 12, 2017 · To expand on your first bullet point a bit, <ae> is pronounced various ways because of the long history of pronunciations for Latin. It corresponds to Old Latin <ai>, which was almost certainly …

  9. word choice - "Start" vs. "begin", "finish" vs. "end" - English ...

    For example, the beginning of a race track is called the starting line and the end is called the finish line. There are of course more nuances involved than I gave in my answer, but the question was about the …

  10. How to know if the beginning of a word is a true prefix

    Nov 9, 2022 · What's your definition of a true prefix? English has various categories of prefix - there are productive prefixes, non-productive prefixes, prefixes in words taken from other languages (where if …