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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 ... supply and de-
mand, sweetness and light, sword of
Damocles, take pot luck, tilt at wind-
mills, tip of the iceberg, tit for tat, under
a cloud, under the aegis of, vicio...
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... pronoun instead of a noun: friends of
mine and a dress of hers. Nobody is
likely to say “friends of me” or “a dress
of her.”
In writing, (1) an opinion of the doc-
tor and (2) an opinion of the doctor’s
have ... 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...
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...
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
... 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...
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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... 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.
ã Pairs with opposite meanings. See
Confusing pairs (energize and
enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and
sanction and...
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
... 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...
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt
... 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 Books...
The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
... 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 . . .”...
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 ... England to its very core.”
Put aside any doubts about the
metaphor and the image it conjures of
someone shaking the jewels and gilding
off a royal crown....
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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... is
unavailable to the other three verbs,
which do not go with to bed. A correc-
tion is to insert another and and another
them: “who fed, dressed, and bathed
them and put them to bed.”
VERTEBRA and VERTEBRAE.
A ... transitive. Only the last has an object
(them).
For the younger ones, Emma was
their mother-figure, who fed, dressed,
bathed, and put them to bed.
The verb put goe...
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