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A Guide to Using Colons. We'll get to semicolons later. What to Know. Colons (:) introduce clauses or phrases that serve to describe, amplify, or restate what precedes them. Often they are used to introduce a quote or a list that satisfies the previous statement.
31 Useful Rhetorical Devices. 'Simile' and 'metaphor' are just the beginning. What Is a Rhetorical Device and Why are They Used? As with all fields of serious and complicated human endeavor (that can be considered variously as an art, a science, a profession, or a hobby), there is a technical vocabulary associated with writing.
The songwriters, brothers Richard and Robert Sherman, have explained the word as originating in the same way they, like many others, used to make up humorously big, nonsensical words as children. Photo: smckenzie. A future spelling bee champ offers to spell 'Supercalifragilistic' for Mary.
1. : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university. an alumnus of Columbia University. usually used of a man in the singular but often of men and women in the plural. 2. : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate. a Saturday Night Live alumnus. Did you know? Alumnus or Alumna?
Gender is interchangeable with sex when used to mean “either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures.” This is especially true in nontechnical use.
1. a. : fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent. explicit instructions. compare implicit sense 1a. b. : open in the depiction of nudity or sexuality. explicit books and films. 2. : fully developed or formulated. an explicit plan. an explicit notion of our objective. 3.
33 Transition Words and Phrases. 'Besides,' 'furthermore,' 'although,' and other words to help you jump from one idea to the next. Transitional terms give writers the opportunity to prepare readers for a new idea, connecting the previous sentence to the next one.
