- 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?
- grammaticality - Sentences beginning with so? - English Language . . .
Now, so is commonly used at the beginning of a sentence to mean "as a result" as it was traditionally used, but also with the same meaning as "uh," as an initial attention-getter
- What is a suitable word to describe an event that marks the beginning . . .
I am looking for a word that describes an event which marks the beginning of an apocalypse or era of darkness It shouldn't describe the aftermath itself, but rather the instigating moment Howeve
- What is a word that means truncate from the beginning?
I am creating some software that has the concept of truncating a one-dimensional array from either the left or right end I'm happy using the word truncate to describe lopping off the rightmost end
- 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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