... with the intention 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 113 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 Ox...
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... miles and a mile and a half A mixture of word and figure, “one and 1/2,” is not standard Either half of the land or one-half of the land (population, weight, etc.) is correct, although the latter ... Weather, the condition of the atmosphere Whether, in either event; either; if See also the following entries: AFFECT and EFFECT ALL TOGETHER and ALTOGETHER (etc.) B...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 ppsx
... in order of size In the set of three just above, the median is 36 (When the number of items is even, the median is the mean of the two figures in the middle.) Technically, the mean and the median ... said about the singularity of kind of goes for class of, sort of, and type of See TYPE See also THEM and THOSE Improperly used with A or AN Another source...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 ppsx
... have is the length of one and the weight of the other, and how can these be compared? In the following example, from a press article, the problem may lie in the writing, rather than in the data ... to the United Nations’ wishes, leaving the Americans “little choice but to blow them out of the sky” (a non sequitur) “Little choice”? The Americans had the choice...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 ppsx
... 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 our barons, we have made all these ... enlargement of executive privilege, from his theory of impoundment to his theory of the pocket veto, from his calculated disparagement of the cabinet and his cal...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 pptx
... hauled off ” Next, the sequence of two events is mistakenly reversed by the use of the present perfect instead of the past perfect: The Mohajir group called the strike to demand the release of ... protest the lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness? THAT and WHICH The difference Indiscriminate WHICH; mix-up of THAT and WHICH “THA...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 pdf
... unavailable to the other three verbs, which not go with to bed A correction is to insert another and and another them: “who fed, dressed, and bathed them and put them to bed.” VERTEBRA and VERTEBRAE ... to do, and was doing things that a candidate would Then she would be the virtual candidate The husband would be the of cial candidate, perhaps a puppet candidate, but not a...
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the new palgrave dictionary of economics (durlauf and blume)
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