21st Century Grammar Handbook



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21st century grammar
21st century grammar, transformation, transformation, - - - .pdf;filename*= UTF-8''অনুবাদ চর্চা (প্রথম আলো পত্রিকা থেকে-২৯-০৩-২০২০)-1, 21st century grammar
Blow, blew, blown. An irregular verb in its main, past tense, and past participle
forms.
Blown. See blow.
Bold type. Darkened, thickened letters in print are called bold or boldface Such letters often appear in titles, captions, and similar places where emphasis is desired to call attention to something. The alphabetical subjects in the entries throughout this book appear in bold type.
Both … and. The correlative conjunctions both … and are used to link two equal things or people Both Mary and John give excellent speeches No comma should stand before and in this construction, and the agreeing verb should be in the plural.
See agreement.
Bracket. The squarish punctuation marks ([…]) used in some circumstances to set o

added or supplementary material are called brackets Their main function is to indicate a secondary level of enclosure of sentence elements within parentheses: The value of gold ($350 [2,100 francs on September 4) has a close relationship to in ation.” If it is possible to avoid such complex constructions, which are hard for readers to follow unless they are used to such a style (as scientists are, you should do so.
Brackets are also used (usually in more scholarly writing) to insert words into
quotations that weren’t therein the rst place but that the writer thinks are necessary to make the quotation comprehensible to the reader Kennedy said, Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country ” The purpose of such insertions is usually not to indicate opinions about the matter being quoted but to supply bridge words or other aids to the reader. Avoid using brackets to set o criticisms or other views of quotes. WRONG He said, Ask not well, why shouldn’t we ask ” Move such commentary to separate sentences, allowing the source of the ideas you want to annotate the courtesy of having his or her say before your thoughts intrude on the statement.

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