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... dis- tinguished from a consensus of authority, of evidence, of faith, of taste, of testimony, and so on. In any case, “consensus of does not go with “some kind of Mafia involve- ment” (in the third ... “Twelve gallons of gasoline fills my tank.” See also AMOUNT and NUMBER; FEWER and LESS; MANY and MUCH; Numbers; Verbs, 3. Colon. See Punctuation, 2. COME and CAME. The...
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... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals. Often of fol- lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try- ing to achieve some kind of effect, be- sides the effect of making the newspaper seem illiterate and causin...
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... rare kind of stone.” The same principle holds for class of, sort of, and type of. “A gnu is a type of antelope.” 3. Properly used with A or AN Kind of in another sense may go with a. Being a kind of ... an average. It is the sum of a set of figures di- vided by the number of figures in the set. The definitions coincide only for a set of two figures. The mean of 56, 36 ,...
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... 13, 833 troops the Soviets say they lost in eight years of fighting in Afghanistan. Can there possibly be any reader who does not know that $30 0 is less than $33 0 or that 14 ,37 7 is more than 13, 833 ? See ... overdrawn, and the right eye (from the Latin oculus dexter, used on prescriptions). -ODD. See SOME. -O ending. See Plurals and singulars, 2J. OF. See COMPRISE; HAVE, HAS, HA...
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... a cer- tain dictionary. PREREQUISITE and PERQUI- SITE. See PERQUISITE and PRE- REQUISITE. prerequisite and perquisite 30 3 03- M–Q_4 10/22/02 10 :32 AM Page 30 3 one another.” / “Romeo and Josephine ... the subject of its verb (lives or comes). (See THAT and WHICH; WHO, THAT, and WHICH.) PROOF and EVIDENCE. See EVI- DENCE and PROOF. PROOF OF THE PUDDING. The proverb a...
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... reflects 36 6 reversal of meaning 04-R–Z_4 10/22/02 10 :33 AM Page 36 6 tion of political favoritism in a federal department, a congressman asked a for- mer subordinate of the secretary of housing and ... 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...
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... 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 ... not ready to write of “Italian Navigator and Discoverer of the New World Christo- pher Columbus,” or of “Commander of the Continental Army in the American Rev...
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... Webster’s Dictionary of Usage and Style, New York: Avenel Books, copyright 1964, 1982 ed. ———, American Usage: The Consen- sus, New York: Van Nostrand Rein- hold, 1970. ———, American Usage and Style: ... 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. WRAC...
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... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals. Often of fol- lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... idiom and not considered wrong. Nobody minds when the possessive is a pronoun instead of a noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers. Nobody is likely to say “friends...
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... 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 and INCIDENT ITS and IT’S LEAD (verb) and ... 179 text. Examples are the nouns chance (of or to) and intention (of or to), verbs fail (at or to) and think (of or to), and adjec- tives sorry (about or to)...
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