Dec 12, 2014 · The period will start in 15 minutes. vs I can barely remember the beginning of the period. Start has the sense of being a fixed point in time, while beginning could possibly refer …

Oct 18, 2012 · In the beginning is usually preferred alone and followed by a comma. But at the beginning is used together with a noun such as year, book, century, show ..etc.. ;) E.g. In the …

But to "start" marks the actual/exact time of launching an activity (to understand more clearly, consider these two examples: This is just the beginning [meaning, all the initial period] . It's …

Dec 13, 2015 · Yes, OP is correct. "From the beginning" implies something which lasts until now, while "in the beginning" implies something which existed in the beginning only. Let me …

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Sep 26, 2011 · So is sometimes used in the beginning of a sentence to connect the sentence with the previous sentence or paragraph, as a discourse marker. It may imply that the content of …

Note that this is a "metaphoric" usage based on the spatial/directional connotations of from the beginning to the end. But in OP's final sentence, it's unlikely any list exists at all (and even if it …

Jun 19, 2011 · Of those 871 instances, 465 were at the beginning of a sentence; 51 immediately followed a semicolon; and 355 immediately followed a comma. Link to Full Tabulation (PDF) …

Oct 16, 2012 · Correct. The standard injunction to avoid using conjunctions (or conjuncts) at the beginning of a sentence was predicated on the assumption that such sentences tended to be …

Both dot-net and Java StringBuilder libraries, and probably comparable things in other libraries, have an "insert" function that allows you to insert a new string at an arbitrary place in a target …