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Examples are: cablegram (cable telegram), op art (optical art), org-man (organization man), linocut (linoleum cut). Sometimes both halves of a compound are clipped as in navicert ( navi gation cert ificate).
Standard: I will not shrink from discussion. Standard: She shrank away from me. Non-standard: I will not shrink discussion. Non-standard: I will not shirk from discussion. shall, will, should and would. See Shall and will. since and sense. Since is used as an adverb or a preposition to imply the same meaning as "after then" or "from" in a sentence.
A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...
Smallpdf is a Swiss online web-based PDF software, founded in 2013. [2] It offers free version with limited features to compress, convert and edit PDF documents. [ 3 ] And its paid version offers advanced features like OCR, compress, and more [ 4 ] .
For example: The man who heard that the dog had been killed on the radio ran away. One can tell if a sentence is center embedded or edge embedded depending on where the brackets are located in the sentence. [Joe believes [Mary thinks [John is handsome.]]] The cat [that the dog [that the man hit] chased] meowed.
Specialized applications of outlines also exist. A reverse outline is a list of sentences or topics that is created from an existing work, as a revision tool; it may show the gaps in the document's coverage so that they may be filled, and may help in rearranging sentences or topics to improve the structure and flow of the work.
A PDF file is organized using ASCII characters, except for certain elements that may have binary content. The file starts with a header containing a magic number (as a readable string) and the version of the format, for example %PDF-1.7. The format is a subset of a COS ("Carousel" Object Structure) format. [24]
For example, for reasons of readability, the US government's 1959 official style guide mandated double sentence spacing in all government documents—whether produced by “teletypesetter, reproduction or other method”. [19] Single sentence spacing was introduced by professional printers in the United Kingdom as well.