- etymology - What is the origin of ex? - English Language Usage . . .
Ex-wife, ex-boyfriend Does ex have a full form? Google dictionary has this information about the origin of ex: But what is the origin of the usage as a prefix in the words like ex-wife, ex-boyfri
- How to write a plural form of ex (ex girlfriend. . etc)
I saw my ex-boyfriend at the mall yesterday In plural, The ex-policemen were on a strike demanding justice or, All of my ex-husbands showed up at my latest wedding! In informal English, especially US English, it is acceptable to say: Hey man! I saw your ex with this hot dude yesterday! or, She is still in touch with all of her exes
- Whats the difference between e. g. and ex. ? [closed]
E g is short for exempli gratia, and is in common use to introduce an example within a sentence Submit a sample of academic writing, e g , a dissertation chapter However, some authors use ex
- Whats the difference between ex- and former [closed]
Conversationally, I agree that ex-wife seems much more common that former wife In writing, though, the use of former doesn't seem so rare Here's an interesting Ngram
- What is ex-Government Official meaning? - English Language Usage . . .
In this context, the prefix ex- means former Wiktionary has this definition: former, but still living (almost always used with a hyphen) ex-husband, ex-president, ex-wife So an ex-government official is someone who was previously a government official
- punctuation - Using the ex prefix on a multiple word subject . . .
"ex-school" seems awkward It looks as if he is a bus driver for ex-schools "ex" by itself (no hyphen) doesn't seem right either Is it? "ex-Fish" just sounds ridiculous Is this correct usage? Can each part be hyphenated, or the hyphen dropped altogether? Is there another way to make this more clear while still keeping the "ex" prefix?
- Is there a rule for the correct pronunciation of words starting with ex?
I was thinking that this sort of anticipatory assimilation in which the voicing from the vowel following the ks makes the gz, also applies when the following sound is a voiced consonant, but it turns out there are too few examples of those to get a good feel for it: ex-directory, exgenerated, exgurgitation, ex-meridian, ex-vaccine, ex-votive
- Of-genitive shift in modern English from objective to subjective: Ex . . .
Old English versions have the same Ex Wycliffe Gal 2:16 "that we ben iustified of the feith of Crist" It was continued in some versions like Douay-Rheims 1899 However, the new versions from the Revised Version (20th Century) have a shift in understanding this objective genitive and turns those phrases "faith in" by removing of
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