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  2. Parenthetical referencing - Wikipedia

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    In the author–date method (Harvard referencing), [4] the in-text citation is placed in parentheses after the sentence or part thereof that the citation supports. The citation includes the author's name, year of publication, and page number(s) when a specific part of the source is referred to (Smith 2008, p.

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    An overnight period may be expressed using a slash between two contiguous dates: the night raids of 30/31 May 1942 or raids of 31 May / 1 June 1942. Or use an en dash: (unspaced) raids of 30–31 May 1942; (spaced) raids of 31 May – 1 June 1942. The {} template can keep ages current in infoboxes and so on: {{age|1989|7|23}} returns: 35

  4. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Abbreviations

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    Modern style is to use a full point (period) after a shortening (see § Shortenings for exceptions) but no full points within an acronym or initialism. In the unusual case of an acronym containing full points between letters, it should also have a full point after the final letter.

  5. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (numbers and dates)

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    Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) gives the general principles of how Wikipedia deals with the representation of numbers and dates. This present naming conventions guideline concentrates on the aspect of how numbers and dates are represented in article titles, that is the names of the articles where the content is (as opposed to redirect pages that also allow non-standardized ...

  6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the center of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it. In most sentences, English marks grammatical relations only through word order.

  7. How a single sentence — and a tennis metaphor — can save ...

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    Years after taking the class, a former skeptical student turned big-time Silicon Valley engineer emailed her about how the sentence helped his staff. During a disengaged meeting, he instructed ...

  8. 17 Best Phrases To Use To Say 'I Like You,' According to ...

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    Amy Morin, LCSW, a psychotherapist with a forthcoming relationship book called 13 Things Mentally Strong Couples Don't Do. Rebecca Marcus, LCSW, psychotherapist, speaker and dating/relationship expert

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Captions

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    gives an example of an informative yet brief full-sentence caption describing the key element (the singular protagonist) depicted and its relationship to the article's subject. The need for a full-length caption in an infobox can generally indicate one of two things: 1) an exceptionally inappropriate image or 2) an image that doesn't really ...