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... with the inten- tion of giving up residence there. Often it is followed by from and the name of the old country. The Treskunoffs emigrated from Russia ten years ago.” The act or practice of emigrating ... television, The level of facticity has dropped on the part of both of the candidates,” was she using a recognized word? The noun facticity is defined in The O...
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... device. Weather, the condition of the atmo- sphere. Whether, in either event; either; if. See also the following entries: AFFECT and EFFECT ALL TOGETHER and ALTO- GETHER (etc.) BLOC and BLOCK BORE, ... Went is the past tense of the verb go. The past participle of go is gone. Therefore a correction of the first exam- ple is either The drug activity went down . . .”...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 ppsx
... Modifying.) In the ex- ample above, the writer wanted a phrase at the beginning of the sentence to mod- ify the word at the end, “cannabis.” The placement of the phrase and its lack of subject and verb ... last or the last of those or something similar. Among the items kept there are the diary of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebels, an X-ray of Adolph Hi...
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... ONE and EVERY- ONE; Pronouns, 2C. ONE IN EVERY. See ONE OF, 1. ONE OF. 1. ONE OF EVERY, ONE OUT OF, etc. 2. ONE OF THE, IF NOT THE, etc. 3. ONE OF THE . . . WHO etc. 1. ONE OF EVERY, ONE OUT OF, ... proficiency in English himself. The of should have been at. “Off of is a substandard phrase. Of is superfluous; its sense is included in off. The of intrudes often in conve...
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... . . . save by the lawful 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 ... about the weather.” / “Speak of the devil.” / “ The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘to talk of many things. . . . ’ ” / The professor will speak on the...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 pptx
... laws of that kind. See also 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 ... hauled off. . . . ” Next, the sequence of two events is mistakenly reversed by the use of the present perfect instead of the past per- fect: The Mohajir group called...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 pdf
... Plain English, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 199 6. The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, Sylvia Chalker and Ed- mund Weiner, Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 199 4. The Oxford Dictionary of ... Publish- ing Co., 196 8. The Chicago Manual of Style, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 198 2. The College Standard Dictionary of the reference works 4...
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... 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 adults and get a closer look at opportunities awaiting them in the real ... by an American publisher for American read- ers, but the author is British and his dis- cussion of the future of the universe is taken from a lecture at the U...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... (has-ten and of- ten). A hyphenated compound, such as hang-up or send-off, should be divided at the hyphen and nowhere else. Yet one was published as “han-” and “gup” and the other as “sen-” and “d-off” ... the foreign foreign lo- cale.” Foreign is the original meaning of exotic, which comes from the Greek word for outside. The sense of intro- duced from abroad and...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
... 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. A statistical term in which the ... figure midway in a set of figures arranged in or- der of size. In the set of three just above, the median is 36. (When the number of items is even, the media...
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