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... Gang of Four, blamed for the worst excesses of the 1 966 –19 76 Cultural Revolution. Not the woman but her sentence was commuted. commute 67 01-A-E_4 10/22/02 10:29 AM Page 67 Comparative and superlative ... 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...
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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 ... Joseph Priestley was a scientist and the discoverer of oxy- gen. He was also a philosopher, politi- cian, and theologian, and in the 1 760 s he wrote The Rudiments of...
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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 ... 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, and 34 is 42...
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... The Americans had the choice of not blowing them out of the sky; the choice of talking instead of shooting; the choice of going home. Life presents most of us with in- numerable choices, and ... can weary of overlong blocks of writing. An extreme example is seen in Webster’s Third Dictionary, where paragraphs reach lengths of some four thousand words (take and turn). N...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... Belgium”); and (c) introduces that dependent clause, serving as 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 ... 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; WH...
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... reflects 366 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 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 whi...
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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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... Clarendon Press, 19 76. Roy H. Copperud, Webster’s Dictionary of Usage and Style, New York: Avenel Books, copyright 1 964 , 1982 ed. ———, American Usage: The Consen- sus, New York: Van Nostrand Rein- hold, ... Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 vol., Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1971. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Cur- rent English, 6th ed., J....
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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 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... Joseph Priestley was a scientist and the discoverer of oxy- gen. He was also a philosopher, politi- cian, and theologian, and in the 1 760 s he wrote The Rudiments of...
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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 ... form (with his brother in The King’s English, 19 06) and publicize it (in his famous Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 19 26) . The four examples below...
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