Word order

Persistent practice is the great essential to acquiring a foreign language vocabulary and sensing its word order and idioms. At the outset the chemical student will find it very helpful to read in German elementary chemical textbooks with the subject matter of which he is familiar. This will serve the double purpose of review and German practice. 

Here, the word order of the sentence, not an individual word, causes the confusion. Did the customer eat her sandwich with her hat Because the phrase with the blue hat is in the wrong place, the meaning of the sentence is unclear. Try instead My customer with the blue hat ate the sandwich. 

Ambiguous means having two or more possible meanings. Ambiguous language can either be words and phrases that have more than one meaning, or word order that conveys a meaning different from the one intended by the writer ... 

For some purposes, such as alphabetical listing of basic skeleton names, inverted word order is used. 

In the last chapter we have used the word order without giving it any precise meaning. Most definitions of order involve thermodynamic concepts. Thus, for example, one might say that the most ordered state of a system is the one to which the system tends as the temperature tends to absolute zero. This definition would, however, be of little service in the present context. Most of the systems which we will discuss are remote from thermodynamic equilibrium. This is true both of the films during their preparation and also of the final prepared films. However, these prepared films are in states of metastable equilibrium which are likely to survive for periods long compared with the time taken to carry out experiments on them and, very often, for periods so long as to be, from a human point of view, infinite. 

You don t have time to rewrite paragraphs or add new ones, but you should have a couple of minutes to change word order, adjust word choice, and correct obvious grammatical and mechanical mistakes. This final polishing step can help make your ideas come across much more clearly for your readers, strengthen your writing, and ensure that you have done your best work. 

Do not omit words needed to complete comparisons, and do not use confusing word order. The subordinating conjunction than is often used to introduce the second element in a comparison, following an adjective or adverb in the comparative degree. 

Looking at sentence structure means looking at the type of sentences the writer has used. Are they short, simple sentences Or are they long and complex, with a lot of clauses and phrases Or does the writer use a mix Does every sentence sound the same, or is there variety in the word order and structure Is the complexity or simplicity of the sentences at the right level for the readers ... 

Journal abbreviations are unwelcomed by the literature searcher only when they tend to obscure rather than to disclose the actual title. Confusion in such a citation may arise from a change in the normal word order, such as inversion addition of extra words, such as the society name, place of imprint, or founder unusual contractions or abbreviations of individual words and the complete omission of certain words appearing in the full title. Standard abbreviations have been established from time to time, but as yet no one system of constructing abbreviations may be considered to be truly international. 

Chemical Abstracts periodical title abbreviations are based on the following mles (5). In general, the normal word order of the title is preserved. 

There seem to be logically only four types of word order which can be used in abbreviating the name of a journal. 

In addition to the problem of which word order is to be used, there is the question of which words or parts of words shall be omitted or retained. For instance, the word American might appear as A, Am., Amer., or Amern. Abbreviations for the word Journal are similarly varied. The letter A might also stand for Annalen, annaler, annales, annali, Annalen der Chemie, abstracts, age, or even British Abstracts, Section A. 

The last type of word order to be considered consists in placing first the name of the founder or one of the successive editors of the journal. A list of the most common of such abbreviations includes the following ... 

The correct word order is crucial for clarity. Always place a modifier (a word or group of words that affects the meaning of another word) near the word it modifies. The position of a modifier can completely change the meaning of your sentence for example, each sentence presented here offers a different idea because of the placement of the modifier only. ... 

Some words and phrases in your sentences are more important than others and, therefore, need more emphasis. Three ways to vary emphasis are by (1) word order, (2) coordination, and (3) subordination. 

Another use of word order to vary emphasis is inversion, taking a word out of its natural or usual position in a sentence and relocating it in an unexpected place. 

Input/Output Number of Characters/Word ordering of variables in COMMON) 4 5... 

The word order is used in kinetics in its mathematical meaning. This use is unrelated to the order-disorder discussion of entropy (Chapter 15). 

A search in Chemical Abstracts (up to 1990) using the key-words "Order", "introduction" sequence", "organic synthesis", "reagent(s) , "one-pot", afforded only hvof ) references.[4]... 

As you chauffeur your learners, you can play License Plate Scrabble. The basic game and its variations aid spelling, vocabulary, and word order. The idea is to take three letters of a license plate and make them into a word, using the first letter as the first letter of the word, the second letter as any letter in the middle of the word and the last letter as, well, the last letter. For example, DSY can become "daisy" or "Disney" or "discovery."... 

Characterized by misspellings, missing words, incorrect word order errors in grammar, spelling, and mechanics severely impede understanding across the response. 

Inversion A change in normal word order, such as from I see the cat to The cat I see. Irony Twisting the meaning of words in ways that create the opposite impression. There are three major types ... 

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