Regarding the questions: What do you call those divisions of a book bigger than a paragraph but smaller than a chapter?  Is not such a division best known as a PARICOPE from the Greek PARIKOPE or "a cutting around" as in the selection of a passage from the Bible in religious services?
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In printed books, or at least in novels, there are often major breaks within a chapter more important than paragraphs.  Often they are separated by a greater amount of whitespace than paragraphs and sometimes this whitespace will contain special symbols such as ⁂ or * * * or even a custom symbol.  So is there a specific term for these, perhaps used by authors or in the publishing industry? Or are the more general terms like section and subchapter the best we have? Some online sources at least seem to say this is used for subdivisions smaller than a subchapter, which doesn't help much.
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Here is the question,  :     A group of n married couples comes to a group discussion session where   they all sit around a round table. In how many ways can they sit so   that no person is next to his or her spouse? (Note that two people of   the same sex can sit next to each other.   I appreciate any tips or advice.
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I came across a phrase for a type of question which is designed to discover someone's religious background, particularly in the context of sectarianism and divided societies but can't for the life of me remember it.   For example, if you are in Scotland and I ask you what football team you support, that may reveal your religion. Or in N.Ireland, if I ask what school you attend, likewise that may do the same.  It's like a 'veiled question' only that's not the term I'm looking for. Any help appreciated.  I've a feeling that the second part of the phrase is (question) as in, a INSERT TERM question, but not 100% sure.
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I have a question about the following text:     Last week Alex Knapp at Forbes published an article criticizing my Nikola Tesla comic. I don't normally respond to these kinds of thing, but since it's' Forbes I figured a proper response was in order.    I would rather say "this kind of things" rather than the version in the text above.
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In the past &#8212; or at least, when I was in elementary school &#8212; periods/full stops were followed by two spaces.  Lately, it's become more and more common to see just one space.  In the modern world, should we still use two spaces between sentences, or is just one okay?  Does it depend on the situation?  Or are both acceptable, with the choice simply coming down to personal preference?
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Where did the phrases "a cut above the rest" and "a cut below the rest" come from? I'm supposing they came from the same source. I feel it something very obvious, but I don't know what.
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When punctuating the dimensions of something, if both dimensions share the same units, does the punctuation occur after each measurement or just after the last one. For example, if I'm looking at a sheet of paper, which is correct: {8 1/2 x 11"} or is {8 1/2" x 11"}?
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I wimped out in answering , dropping the commas and going to parentheses in this sentence, because I was not sure of the placement/correctness of commas in this construction. Now I'd like to get clear on how to use commas in this sentence (without reformulating it...no moving "poems", for example), and why. I'm not even sure that conjunction reduction is what causes the awkwardness here...  Wimp version:     I like Lord Byron's (and also enjoy a number of Percy Shelley's) poems.   Now I'm asking, if you use the comma, do you use both commas? It looks mighty strange with "poems" out there by itself:     I like Lord Byron's, and also enjoy a number of Percy Shelley's, poems.   ...Or is the comma even required? I don't like this, but is it correct?     I like Lord Byron's and also enjoy a number of Percy Shelley's poems.
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There is a question in our grammar book that goes like this:  Her husband, a plumber's assistant, earns only 300 dollars a month, which makes it very difficult for her to feed and clothe her children properly, ______________ send them to school. a. much more b. still more c. much less d. even less  The book says that the answer is C. How do i explain it in the clearest way possible to my student? She is an intermediate level.
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Hello native English speakers!  I want to ask you about either and both. I tried to find similar questions in this site but I think they were not same with these ones.  My questions are;   I was invited to two parties, but I couldn't go to ------- of them.  I took two books with me on holidays, but I didn't read ------- of     them.   I choose both for questions 1 and 2. But the right answers were either. But I think both and either are correct either. Am I right?   Thank you in advance!
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can anybody tell me which one of these is the correct one? I have been searching all over the internet but I have still got no answer.  Types of books Types of book
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Is there a place for using these pleonasms:  &quot;It is John who runs.&quot; (instead of: &quot;John runs.&quot;)  &quot;It was congress that legislated.&quot; (instead of: &quot;Congress legislated.&quot;)   ? It would seem to have its use only when what comes after the &quot;that&quot; is a long clause: Example from the intro. of :  It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric.  could be rewritten as:  That the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric is an old observation.  But this isn't conciser.
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I have been invited to write a book chapter in an edited volume, relating to my field of work. I have a paper ready that I have not published and was planning to submit it soon. So, I am wondering is it worth to use that article for the book chapter, as both are on the same topic, or is it in a sense a waste of a journal paper, as book chapters might not be seen to have the same academic value? What should I do? Should I, instead, send the ready paper to a journal for a review and write a book chapter, based on a couple papers I have published, for instance?  Generally speaking, where does a book chapter stand? Is it something between a conference paper and a full-fledged journal article? Or, does does it have the same value as either of the above-mentioned publication types, in your opinion?
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I had an exam today (Egyptian GSEC english exam) and in a passage about library it said:     The book slipped from his hands and fell on the floor with loud noise, 20 eyes looked at him and his face turned red.....   It then asked: approximately,how many persons where at the library?  Ten or twenty or forty  But I would like to know if twenty eyes represent 10 persons or is it like a metaphor and represents 20 persons?  Is this expression even correct?  Edit : in the passage it was obvious that it is a normal library with normal people i just cut a part out of its context that serves the question
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In group theory it happens very often that you want to say: "The order of $H$ divides / does not divide the order of $G$." But the length of | is then always the same:  $ |H| | |G| $ produces |H|||G|  which is not ideal at all. (The negation \nmid has just this length too.) The length of "divides" should be longer than the "cardinality length". I could use   $ |H| \big| |G|$  but then there is no good way to say "does not divide" with the same length. Also, \big| is no solution when the expression has to be used in subscripts.   I thought it was just me, but I asked other group theorists, and nobody had a solution. I hope there is one.  I am seeking a division sign which is a little longer than the usual | , allows negation (with the same length) and proportionally correct use in subscripts (also under \sum etc.). It does not look professional if the "order sign" has the same length as the "divides" sign. (And what about combinations with absolute values, norms - although personally I don't use them as often as group orders.)
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Is it possible to have in the toc no word separation but have a word separation in the chaptername:  For example:   Contents  1. max Mustermann   Chapter  Max Muster- mann
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Is using the definite article here in this sentence incorrect? If yes, what's its reason? The word 'chapter' is a count noun.   Have you finished the chapter eight of your novel book?