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4 CONTENTS3 Use of tables, figures, examples, and similar elements 233.1 Figures and tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233.1.1 General rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233.1.2 Vector graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243.1.3 Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243.1.4 Tables and figures in latex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243.1.5 Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253.2 Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253.3 Referring to chapters or sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263.4 Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263.5 Examples and definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.5.1 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.5.2 In latex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.5.3 Expressions for referring to a definition . . . . . . . . . 283.6 Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283.6.1 Without equation numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283.6.2 With equation numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283.6.3 Text inside equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 Grammar with style notes 314.1 Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314.1.1 Number and person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314.1.2 Tenses (temporal forms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324.1.3 Active or passive voice, which person? . . . . . . . . . 334.1.4 Other notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344.1.5 Noun syndrom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354.1.6 Often needed irregular verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364.2 Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374.2.1 Plural forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384.2.2 Countable and uncountable nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . 394.2.3 Extra: differences between British and American English 394.3 Compound words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404.4 Articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414.4.1 Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414.4.2 Use of articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414.4.3 Hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444.5 Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504.5.1 Unclear references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504.5.2 Pronouns which require singular verb form . . . . . . . 504.5.3 Every vs. all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504.5.4 Many vs. several . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
CONTENTS 54.5.5 Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514.5.6 Relative pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514.5.7 Extra material: Tricks for gender-neutral language . . . 524.6 Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524.6.1 Vague adjecives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524.6.2 Comparative and superlative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524.6.3 When you compare things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534.7 Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544.7.1 The position of adverbs in a sentence . . . . . . . . . . 544.7.2 Special cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554.7.3 Extra: How to derive adverbs from adjectives? . . . . . 554.7.4 Comparing adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564.8 Parallel structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.8.1 Basic rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574.8.2 Parallel items combined by conjunctions and, or, but . 584.8.3 Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584.8.4 Parallel items combined by conjunction pairs . . . . . . 604.8.5 The comparative – the comparative . . . . . . . . . . . 624.8.6 Parallel sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624.9 Prepositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624.9.1 Expressing location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634.9.2 Expressing time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634.9.3 Expressing the target or the receiver: to or for? . . . . 634.9.4 Special phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644.10 Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664.10.1 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664.10.2 Sentence types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664.10.3 Sentence length? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674.10.4 Word order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684.10.5 Combining clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704.10.6 Combining clauses by sub-ordinating conjunctions . . . 704.10.7 Relative clauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714.10.8 Indirect questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744.11 Paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744.11.1 Combining sentences in a paragraph . . . . . . . . . . 744.11.2 Dividing a section into paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . 754.11.3 Introductory paragraphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774.12 Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784.12.1 Full-stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784.12.2 Comma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784.12.3 Colon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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