Substitution for psyllium husk in baking

On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Look up substitution in Wiktionary, substitution for psyllium husk in baking free dictionary. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. The coach made three substitutions in the second half of the game.

Substitution of applesauce for oil is one way of reducing the fat in recipes. The cookbook has a long list of substitutions for ingredients that may be hard to find. What are the plural forms of check-in, passerby, and spoonful? In English grammar, substitution is the replacement of a word or phrase with a filler word to avoid repetition.

Gelett Burgess’ poem “The Purple Cow” frequently uses the word “one” as substitution for the Purple Cow. Richard Nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Georgia Southern University and the author of several university-level grammar and composition textbooks. I’d rather see than be one. This author relies on substitution to make his piece less monotonous.

Notice how, in lines two and four, “one” is used in place of “The Purple Cow”. Burgess was far from the first, and certainly not the last, writer to use substitution. Substitution is not restricted to writing and can be found in many types of media. See the following spoken examples from television and speeches. Don’t you ever read the Times, Watson? When I quote others, I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

Niles: “I’ll have a decaf latte, and please be sure to use skim milk. All generalizations are false, including this one. Alan Garner: “Hey guys, when’s the next Haley’s comet? Stu Price: I don’t think it’s for like another sixty years or something. Alan Garner: But it’s not tonight, right? I bet you get married  before I get married . I bet you get married  before I do .

María Teresa Taboada, in her book Building Coherence and Cohesion, classifies and structures substitution more clearly. See her example utterances and explanations for a detailed breakdown. One or Ones are the terms most commonly used for nominal substitution in English. Thursday the sixth looks pretty good, and, so does Monday the tenth. Taboada also explains the form and function of ellipsis substitution, an alternative to simply swapping one word for another. Ellipsis is a special instance of substitution, in that it involves substitution by zero.

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