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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
... dark, and handsome,” leave out “both.” BOUGH and BOW. See Homo- phones. Brackets. See Punctuation, 7. 46 bough and bow 01-A-E_4 10 /22 / 02 10 :29 AM Page 46 CONSENSUS. A question for two critics and ... multitude. (Court, courtesy, and curtain also stem from that Latin word.) The most specific meaning of cohort is 62 climactic and climatic 01-A-E_4 10 /22 / 02 10 :29 AM Page...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... highly annoyed. So if you use either word with the 122 “everything from” 01-A-E_4 10 /22 / 02 10 :29 AM Page 122 EACH AND EVERY. See Twins, 1. EACH, EACH OF. Each can be ei- ther an adjective, meaning ... same type of er- ror. every one and everyone 121 01-A-E_4 10 /22 / 02 10 :29 AM Page 121 ERA. 1. Definition; pronunciation. 2. When will it end? 1. Definition; pronunciation An...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
... they might buy a house.” may and might 22 5 03-M–Q_4 10 /22 / 02 10: 32 AM Page 22 5 Change “latter” to last and “more” to most. 3. With number Use of the latter implies the existence of the former, in the ... error: man- lay off and layoff 20 9 02- F–L_4 10 /22 / 02 10:30 AM Page 20 9 in, “We’ll draw lots”; and a number of people or things considered as a group, as in “...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
... and LIKE, 2; Comparison, 2; LIKE, 2; UNLIKE, 2. Anyhow, the 190,000 cannot be com- pared “to” the 50,000. See COM- PARED TO and COMPARED WITH, 1. 26 2 numbers 03-M–Q_4 10 /22 / 02 10: 32 AM Page 26 2 tinction ... dropped with no detriment to the meaning. (See also PICK UP and PICKUP, 2. ) When a congressman sought a presi- 27 2 on 03-M–Q_4 10 /22 / 02 10: 32 AM Page 27 2...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... and 20 of the Empire State Buildings are on display in, where else, the lobby of the Empire State Building at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. 3 42 punctuation 03-M–Q_4 10 /22 / 02 10: 32 AM Page 3 42 PRESCRIBE ... singular words my, your, his, her, and its and the plural words our, your, and their. 29 6 possessive problems 03-M–Q_4 10 /22 / 02 10: 32 AM Page 29 6 4. Needl...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
... judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. . . . . . . For the sake of God, and for the bettering of our realm, and for the more ready healing of the discord which has arisen between us and ... reversal of meaning 04-R–Z_4 10 /22 / 02 10:33 AM Page 366 tion of political favoritism in a federal department, a congressman asked a for- mer subordinate of the secretar...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
... long stretches of human history.” May one also protest the lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness? THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ- ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH; mix-up of THAT and ... KIND OF, 1; Pronouns, 2 (misuse of them); THESE and THOSE. THEMSELVES and “THEM- SELF.” See Pronouns, 5. THEN. See FORMER; THAN. THEORY. See HYPOTHESIS and TH...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt
... and BEST, WORSE and WORST. WOULD and WILL. See Double negative, 1; Subjunctive, 2, 3; Tense, 4. WOULD HAVE, WOULD’VE, and “WOULD OF. ” See HAVE, HAS, HAD, 2. WRACK. See RACK and WRACK. WREAK and ... of Style, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 19 82. The College Standard Dictionary of the reference works 487 REFERENCE WORKS Many of the reference works consul...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
... figurative way when a person in the center of a controversy or furor is said to be “in the eye of the storm.” eye (of a storm) 125 01-A-E_4 10 /22 / 02 10 :29 AM Page 125 or implied). “All interested parties ... abortion? 126 fabulous F 02- F–L_4 10 /22 / 02 10:30 AM Page 126 far as or so far as indicates a limit of progress: “He went to school as far as the sixth grade.” As far...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx
... show went off as planned”) and (2) to discon- tinue or go away (“The show went off the air”). The execution of a prisoner was hours away when the news came that the 154 good and well 02- F–L_4 10 /22 / 02 ... BORN CAPITAL and CAPITOL COMPLEMENT and COMPLI- MENT EXERCISE and EXORCISE FAUN and FAWN FAZE and PHASE GRISLY, GRIZZLY, and GRIZZLED HEROIN and HEROINE INCIDENCE...
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