Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style 8 docx
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
... dis-tinguished from a consensus of authority, of evidence, of faith, of taste, of testimony, and so on.In any case, “consensus of does notgo with “some kind of Mafia involve-ment” (in the third ... a subject are an average of, amajority of, and a total of. Using them ismore complicated than using a number of. It is grammatically correct to say “Anaverage of 186 million eggs were pro-duced ... reversal of thechronological order of events, often withafter, in an effort to update the news; and (2) use of condition in a specialsense, that of a medical prognosis, a prediction of a patient’s...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... single member of a particular group, which can comprisepeople, 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 notconsidered wrong.Nobody minds when the possessive isa pronoun instead of a noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers. Nobody islikely to say “friends of me” or “a dress of her.”In ... 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 newspaperseem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers...
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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 goare to release from confinement (“Letmy people go”), to release one’s hold(“He let go [or “let go of ] the rope”) and to abandon or ... rarekind 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 ANKind of in another sense may go witha. Being a kind of ... expression of sympathy with aperson in distress; condolence, an ex-pression of such sympathy; and sympa-thy, an understanding of and a sharing inone’s grief, pain, or other feelings.METAL and METTLE....
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
... instance, sayovercautious and reject “overly cau-tious.”The Random House Dictionary listsabout 1,500 over- words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 83 pages of over-words, many of which it prefers ... TheAmericans had the choice of not blowingthem out of the sky; the choice of talkinginstead of shooting; the choice of goinghome. Life presents most of us with in-numerable choices, and ... can weary of overlongblocks of writing. An extreme example isseen in Webster’s Third Dictionary, where paragraphs reach lengths of somefour thousand words (take and turn).Newspapers often go...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... thesubject 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. Theproverb about proof and pudding per-plexes ... raising the price of coalor of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit thesecond of; no preposition belongs thereat all.See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 2; WHENCE and “FROM WHENCE”; ... thought.Their function of setting off part of asentence resembles that of dashes and parentheses. (See 4, 7.) In general, com-mas least interrupt the flow of the sen-tence.When the set-off matter comes...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
... judgment of his peers orby the law of the land. . . . . . . For the sake of God, and forthe bettering of our realm, and for themore ready healing of the discordwhich has arisen between us and ... FORWARD and BACK (time); GO OFF and GOON; GREAT; SCAN.• Pairs with opposite meanings. SeeConfusing pairs (energize and enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and sanction and sanctions);DISINGENUOUS and INGENUOUS; ... be a sentence itself).Place and in front of “pays” and “bank” and the first “put.”The job of mayor carries little inthe way of patronage, pays only$5,000 a year and the incumbent . . .is always...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
... longstretches of human history.” May onealso 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 ... notready to write of “Italian Navigator and Discoverer of the New World Christo-pher Columbus,” or of “Commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolution and Father of His CountryGeorge ... redundant. (See also COMPAREDTO and COMPARED WITH, 1;REALLY.)The final quotation is from a maga-zine essay by a professor of English, protesting the lowering of standards of behavior: “. . . Common...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt
... Webster’s Dictionary of Usage and Style, New York: AvenelBooks, copyright 1964, 1 982 ed.———, American Usage: The Consen-sus, New York: Van Nostrand Rein-hold, 1970.———, American Usage and Style: ... 457Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary, Julie E. Towell and HelenE. Sheppard, Detroit: Gale ResearchCo., 1 988 .The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 1st ed.,William ... Bugbears and Out-moded Rules of English Usage, NewYork: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,1971.———, Dos, Don’ts & Maybes of En-glish Usage, New York: Times Books,1977.Black’s Law Dictionary, ...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
... single member of a particular group, which can comprisepeople, 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 notconsidered wrong.Nobody minds when the possessive isa pronoun instead of a noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers. Nobody islikely to say “friends of me” or “a dress of her.”In ... 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 newspaperseem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx
... BORNCAPITAL and CAPITOLCOMPLEMENT and COMPLI-MENTEXERCISE and EXORCISEFAUN and FAWNFAZE and PHASEGRISLY, GRIZZLY, and GRIZZLEDHEROIN and HEROINEINCIDENCE and INCIDENTITS and IT’SLEAD (verb) and ... LEDLOATH and LOATHEMARSHALNAVAL and NAVELPRINCIPAL and PRINCIPLEPronouns, 8. Punctuation, 1B.RACK and WRACKSHEAR, 1.TO, TOO, and TWOTROOP, TROOPS, and TROUPEVerbs, 2 (medal)WHOSE, 2YOUR and ... 179text. 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) and sure (of orto).4. Possessive with gerundJust...
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