Say I am writing an article on something like the Riemann integral or morphogenesis. I have two questions regarding capitalization. Is it allowed to capitalize the first letter of a composite name of importance. E.g. "The importance of the Lebesgue Integral cannot be overstated." I feel like the ‘integral’ is as much part of the … Read more
In English, is it possible a sentence like this? Worse than those who do something are those who do something else. I think this would be the standard sentence: Those who do something else are worse than those who do something. But I was wondering if such syntax is possible to emphasize what it’s worse … Read more
I believe the following sentence is grammatically correct: I do like burgers. Meaning that the speaker wants to emphasize that he likes burgers. What about something like: I do am happy. She does is married. when the speaker wants to emphasize their current situation? Is this grammatically correct? If not, are there any other alternatives … Read more
I have encountered some occurrences of phrases of the type: the correlation between variables is strong, and significantly so… and was asked to explain what the part after the comma meant. Although I know the meaning, I couldn’t give a precise answer despite searching for a formal description. Could someone please explain what the construction … Read more
I believe “You should know that…” is commonly understood as something along the lines of: “It would be good for you to know that …”. However, in a written sentence it’s impossible to know where to put the emphasis: You should know that … It would be good for you to know that … You … Read more
The sequence is “How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck would?” I am wondering if repetition, particularly of the word “wood”, would display symbolism or any other kind of literary device. Answer References: https://www.grammarly.com/handbook/sentences/sentence-style/2/sentence-emphasis/ http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-symbolism.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_much_wood_would_a_woodchuck_chuck http://thepoetrypundit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/alliteration-assonance-and-consonance.html Does repetition in the following sequence of words display symbolism, emphasis, … Read more
Nowadays we use bold, italics <u>underline</u>(but not on SE) and even monospacing to emphasise words. However, before the invention of typewriters what emphasis could they use other than underlining? If you’ve ever tried to embolden text on paper you will know that it is very tricky and ends up with a big blob of ink … Read more
I know that when a word is capitalized it expresses yelling. What about text showing someone is talking and emphasizing a particular word, but he clearly isn’t yelling the word out? How is a “non-yelling” emphasis shown in text? Answer From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(linguistics)#Prosodic_stress I didn’t take the test yesterday. (Somebody else did.) I didn’t take the … Read more
Let’s say that we are in a 2-round tech-competition for which we have already entered the selected list of the first round and waiting to see the results for the 2nd round. Here I want to put the emphasis on the fact that our work was good enough to have the above result. I want … Read more
[This question comes from a sentence I read in a book. Anathem, if you must know.] I’m a native English speaker (California style) and I understand what the semantic difference between “I don’t recommend we [do something]” vs. “I recommend we don’t [do the same thing]”. But I’m sort of vague on what the impact … Read more
