Longman Photo Dictionary of American English

... 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...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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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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... 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...

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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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... 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...

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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...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... 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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... 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....

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... 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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