word choice - "At the beginning" or "in the beginning"? - English ...
Oct 18, 2012 · Are both expressions "At the beginning" "In the beginning" valid and equivalent? The first "seems wrong" to me, but it has more Google results.
What is the difference between the nouns start and beginning?
Dec 12, 2014 · The main difference is in the etymology. 'Start' comes from Old High German; 'begin' is probably West Germanic. We also have 'commence' that came from French, and hence has a …
What is the word for "since the begining of time"?
May 26, 2016 · We have the word "eternal" that refers to something that will exist forever, something that never ends, which is related to the word "eternity" that refers to the end of time. Is there a similar w...
Using "And" at the beginning of a sentence
Jan 29, 2014 · Small children have a particular writing style that teachers often mark as wrong. We had a field trip. And we went to the zoo. And we saw monkeys. And they were funny. And then we went …
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He’s been with us from the beginning. Is there a difference between from and since in the context of the quoted sentence?
Where and when did the practice of using two spaces in the beginning …
Nov 27, 2019 · One of my dissertation readers insisted on the rule. I've found it no bother to accommodate the guideline when asked - it's easy enough to find and replace all in a word …
Is there a single word for 'without a beginning'? [closed]
Jul 1, 2018 · Consider the term unbegotten: not created; having no beginning; eternal But this is a word that you're most likely to encounter only in theology. It literally means not brought into existence by …
Is there a word meaning "append", but at the beginning, not the end?
Both dot-net and Java StringBuilder libraries, and probably comparable things in other libraries, have an "insert" function that allows you to insert a new string at an arbitrary place in a target string. Location …
grammaticality - Is it ok to start a sentence with “also”? - English ...
Jul 4, 2014 · As noted by other commenters, some writers prefer to avoid "Also, .. " in formal writing. But there is one use of 'also' at the start of a sentence which is in fact more prevalent in formal than in …
grammaticality - "Yet" at the beginning of a sentence - English ...
Mar 11, 2013 · Can one use "Yet" at the beginning of a sentence as follows? Yet, he came late. Is this grammatical?