It allows you to distinguish major points from subsidiary points.
This, in turn, can help learners to discover main ideas, to differentiate between salient and subsidiary points or arguments, and to detect the text structure.
It appears then to follow that non-count nouns can be neither singular nor plural a point which would seem indeed to be as fundamental as any, and from which two subsidiary points follow directly.
Tests done in September by the state's Labor Department showed that the vests failed to stop bullets, said Eric Gioia, a New York city councilman who is calling for an investigation into the DHB subsidiary, Point Blank Body Armor, based in Oakland Park, Fla.
An important but subsidiary point concerns the extent to which the appellate court will interfere with the judgment of a first instance judge in striking this balance: is it closer to the exercise of a discretion or the making of a determination of law?
Within that regulatory infrastructure is the subsidiary point that to be exchange traded, a swap must first be cleared.
Further, referral for investigations should be considered as a subsidiary time point that may be of significance in some health-care settings but is not equivalent in cases where actual responsibility for patient management is not transferred.
The American company's Tipping Point subsidiary makes Internet intrusion-detection software, a technology that the United States maintains has national security implications.
And Christophe Arnaud, director of Bluepoint London, the Bolloré subsidiary running the charging-point network, was also anxious to point out that the firm was not expecting the cars to be impounded by the police on the hunt for those committing acts of public indecency.
But internal documents from as long ago as the 1970's from its American subsidiary, Brown & Williamson, point out that "it is a well-known fact that teenagers like sweet products.
So chummy were the relations between Britain's political leaders and Rebekah Brooks, a former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper subsidiary, that at one point Ms. Brooks found herself cheekily lecturing a future prime minister, David Cameron, about how to avoid humiliating himself by text message, she said.
