- What is the difference between the nouns start and beginning?
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 between the start and the halfway point
- word choice - At the beginning or in the beginning? - English . . .
Are both expressions "At the beginning" "In the beginning" valid and equivalent? The first "seems wrong" to me, but it has more Google results
- When should we capitalize the beginning of a quotation?
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 colon, semi-colo
- suffixes - beginning is to prefix as end is to suffix as . . .
The word "prefix" describes something affixed to the beginning of a word and the word "suffix" describes something affixed to the end of a word What is the analog of these for something affixed to or making up the middle of a word?
- Does at least need commas at the beginning of a sentence?
I really hate to have to tell you this, but commas are not determined in English by grammar Say it out loud and you will hear that the comma does not belong in the writing, because it's not audible in the sentence The actual sign comma "," is used to represent a number of intonations in English writing, but the intonation has to be there in the first place, which means orally If it sounds
- 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
- When do we need to put a comma after so at the beginning of a sentence?
The comma looks too accidental and unpolished So again, the best simple rule-of-thumb is to avoid comma-after-so (indeed comma after any FANBOYS) at the beginning of a sentence, immediately following a semicolon, or immediately following a comma That will nearly always align you with great writers and editors
- grammaticality - Using And at the beginning of a sentence - English . . .
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 sentence just right before and the sentence following "And" in some intended meaning which I don't quite get
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