Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style 10 ppt
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 ... dark, and handsome,” leave out “both.”BOUGH and BOW. See Homo-phones.Brackets. See Punctuation, 7.46 bough and bow01-A-E_4 10/ 22/02 10: 29 AM Page 46CONSENSUS. A question for twocritics and ... lurching, careering forward.. . .Case of letters. See Capitalization; I and i; Pronouns, 10A (end).Case of pronoun. See Pronouns, 10; WHO and WHOM, 1.CAUGHT and CAUGHT UP. Foraeons, insects have...
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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 ... George Shultz and hisshattered Department of State seemed116 era01-A-E_4 10/ 22/02 10: 29 AM Page 116comparative of fore and meant more for-ward. Farther came later as a variation of further,...
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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 ... error: man-lay off and layoff 20902-F–L_4 10/ 22/02 10: 30 AM Page 209in, “We’ll draw lots”; and a number of people or things considered as a group,as in “They’re a sorry lot” and “Howmuch for...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
... 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 ... overdrawn, and the right eye (from the Latin oculusdexter, used on prescriptions).-ODD. See SOME.-O ending. See Plurals and singulars,2J. OF. See COMPRISE; HAVE, HAS,HAD, 2; OFF and “OFF OF ;...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... Belgium”); and (c) introducesthat dependent clause, serving as thesubject 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 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”; ... “The curbing of public meetings and the publication of newspapers eliminated most oppositionto the regime.” As it stands, “the curbing of public meetings” and “the publication of newspapers”...
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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; ... reversal of meaning04-R–Z_4 10/ 22/02 10: 33 AM Page 366tion of political favoritism in a federaldepartment, a congressman asked a for-mer subordinate of the secretary of housing and urban...
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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 ... 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 THEORY.theory 42904-R–Z_4 10/ 22/02 10: 33...
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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, 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, NewYork: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,1971.———, Dos, Don’ts & Maybes of En-glish Usage, New York: Times Books,1977.Black’s Law Dictionary, ... 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. B. Sykes, Ox-ford, England: Clarendon...
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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 ... elect(noun). 110 eke01-A-E_4 10/ 22/02 10: 29 AM Page 110 With the holiday season upon us,we . . . would like to extend ourwarmest greetings of friendship and thanks to each and everyone of ourclients. ... 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...
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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 ... 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 ... 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...
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