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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 ... estimated that about 3 million American girls, most of them between the ages of 9 and 15, took off a day from school yesterday to go to work with their parents or other ad...
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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 ,50 0” 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 “friend...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
... also LAY OFF and LAYOFF. The main standard meanings of let go are to release from confinement (“Let my people go”), to release one’s hold (“He let go [or “let go of ] the rope”) and to abandon or ... 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 wi...
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... instance, say overcautious and reject “overly cau- tious.” The Random House Dictionary lists about 1 ,50 0 over- words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 83 pages of over- words, many of which it prefers ... it refers readers to OD (1 955 to 1960) and defines that. OD as an abbreviation (often with dots) can stand for many things, includ- ing doctor of optometry, of cer of t...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... 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 about proof and pudding per- plexes ... raising the price of coal or of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit the second of; no preposition belongs there at all. See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 2;...
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... 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 ... FORWARD and BACK (time); GO OFF and GO ON; GREAT; SCAN. • Pairs with opposite meanings. See Confusing pairs (energize and enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and sanction and...
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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: ... Bugbears and Out- moded Rules of English Usage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. ———, Dos, Don’ts & Maybes of En- glish Usage, New York: Times Boo...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals. Often of fol- lows, as in “every one of our 1 ,50 0” 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 “friend...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx
... 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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