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Indeed emphasizes the truth of a claim already made.
This is most obvious for the word used as an interjection:
“I'm a great runner.”
“Indeed!”
As a sentence adverb, it's usually used to elaborate on the truth of a claim just made:
Consumerism is a major problem for the world today. Indeed, I believe people's consumerism is one of the main ...
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Using the phrase "to go so far as to" in an academic context is certainly acceptable. It's merely a style choice.
The purpose of this kind of verbose phrase is to intensify the sentence as well as to communicate the author's opinion that Mr X has gone too far by calling Mr Y a scumbag. Because it's a long and coherent phrase, and because it's not a common ...
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I can't comment right now so I make this an answer even though it is only a note.
The Chicago Manual of Style rules are very good but I think that as long as you have less than a million pages it is always easier for a reader to interpret full ranges; shortened ones always require a little more intellectual work, even if you're always consistent and explain ...
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If the word isn't used ever again, it is also a Hapax Legomenon:
a word which occurs only once within a context, either in the written
record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a
single text. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to describe a word
that occurs in just one of an author's works, even though it occurs
more than ...
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British English native speaker: Out of those options, I'd put goodbye most formal, followed by bye and take care around equal, then bye-bye. Cheers is a synonym for thanks, and I wouldn't use it as a salutation.
In the context you've described (not sure I'd call it 'formal'; perhaps 'business' or something like that), probably something like bye, goodbye, ...
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Neither sentence reads particularly well. In the first sentence, the run-on “sitting in the middle of the hall” sounds like a tacked-on afterthought. The second is verbose (due to its present progressive verb forms) and flat.
You might consider forms like
Mark, sitting in the middle of the hall, is crying.
Mark sits in the middle of the hall and ...
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The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition (2003), has very clear preferences, which it lists at section 9.64 (rules paraphrased from a table):
For ranges starting with a page number of 1 through 100 (or multiples of 100), use all digits of the end-range number: 3–10, 71–72, 96–117, 100–104, 1100–1113
For ranges starting with a page number of 101 ...
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It's called a neologism:
ne·ol·o·gism
noun
a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
the introduction or use of new words or new senses of existing words.
a new doctrine, especially a new interpretation of sacred writings.
Psychiatry. a new word, often consisting of a combination of other words, that is understood only by the speaker: ...
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You should try to avoid repeating words in the same sentence, and in two adjacent sentences. But generally paragraphs are more like 5–6 sentences long and it is silly (and will probably make the entire block suffer as a result) to try and avoid reuse across that many sentences.
Anyway, you can rework this by using more deictic language + a thesaurus:
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It's all grammatically correct, except for "sitting in a couch". In American English, we normally "sit on a couch". I wouldn't use all capital letters for the character's name, I'd change "in his face" to "on his face" ("in his expression" is fine, though), and rather than a semicolon, I'd use a colon or maybe even revise the final sentence.
However, the ...
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Seems grammatical, but what struck me as odd was "sitting in a couch". Sitting in a chair, seems fine, but sitting on a couch seems more idiomatic. There is nothing technically wrong with sitting in a couch. I've never even thought about this before until I read your sentence.
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The general rule in every style manual I know of says don't hyphenate compounds if the first word ends in /-ly/. They also say not to hyphenate foreign phrases like in vitro (e.g., "in-vitro experiments" and "ad-hoc regulations" are both incorrect) because they're set phrases.
A "friendly-looking dog" contains a compound adjective, the first word of which ...
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Please have a look at these : article 1 & article 2.
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The phrase "uniformly at random" is a very common phrase in probability theory, and people in the field will understand it, even if it isn't precise if you read it as an ordinary English sentence.
If you want to replace it, you should use "randomly and uniformly", which is also a very common phrase in probability theory. Why do you need an "and"? These two ...
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