Understand spoken language

Information in brackets

Submitted by admin on 30 July 2016

There are some cases where it is necessary to put some information in brackets in the title, e.g.:

  • numbers, to show the form in digits and words, e.g. 10,000 (ten thousand)
  • verb forms, to show whether it is singular or plural and whether it is 1st, 2nd or 3rd person, e.g. go; are going (1st person plural)
  • adjectives with a masculine, feminine and plural form, e.g. bad (masculine singular)
  • punctuation marks, e.g. back slash (\)
  • to make clear what the word means if seen when there is no context, e.g. bar (e.g. for chocolate). This is needed because when a student is learning a word like "bar", they need to know whether the word they are learning means, say, a bar of chocolate, or a bar as in a pub. Notice also that if you are adding a qualifier you likely need a "see also" link to the other types of similar word which you are distinguishing it from.
  • to separate otherwise identical English titles, e.g.
    • if you have "1967" as a year said "nineteen sixty seven" and "1967" said "one thousand nine hundred and sixty seven", then you have two versions of "1967". In that case you will need to separate them to make each title unique, for example by making the first one "1967 (year)".
    • basketball vs. basketball (short form)