A frequency contemporary dictionary of american english

... SILICONE SPAT and SPATE TEMBLOR and TREMBLER TESTAMENT and TESTIMONY THAN [and THEN] TORTUOUS and TORTUROUS WENCH and WINCH WHEREFORE and WHEREOF WITHER and WRITHE WREAK and WRECK WREST and WRESTLE ... [and FORTUNATE or FELICITOUS] FULSOME [and FULL] FUROR and FURY GANTLET and GAUNTLET HARDY and HEARTY HINDI and HINDU HISTORIC and HISTORICAL IMPLY and INFER IN...

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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 doctor and (2) an opinion of the doctor’s ... ET CETERA And the rest ET AL And the rest In Latin et means and and cetera means the rest As adapted to English, the phrase et cetera is the equivalent of and so...

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... 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 of criticism is the intrusion of a or an in “That kind of a ... CHECK-OUT EVERY DAY and EVERYDAY EVERY ONE and EVERYONE HOLD INTO, LAY OFF and LAYOFF LOT NEVER MIND ON, (end) PICK UP and PICKUP ROUND UP and ROUNDUP RUN AWAY an...

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... EVERY ONE and EVERYONE; Pronouns, 2C ONE IN EVERY See ONE OF, ONE OF ONE OF EVERY, ONE OUT OF, etc ONE OF THE, IF NOT THE, etc ONE OF THE WHO etc ONE OF EVERY, ONE OUT OF, etc “One of every ... should have been at 271 “Off of is a substandard phrase Of is superfluous; its sense is included in off The of intrudes often in conversations and at times in broadcasting and prin...

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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 EVIDENCE and PROOF PROOF OF ... raising the price of coal or of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit the second of; no preposition belongs there at all 303 See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 2;...

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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 our ... FORWARD and BACK (time); GO OFF and GO ON; GREAT; SCAN • Pairs with opposite meanings See Confusing pairs (energize and enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and sanction and sanctions);...

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... aid and comfort and full faith and credit Other common legal twins include aid and abet, cease and desist, free and clear, save and except, sole and exclusive, terms and conditions, and true and ... furious, fear and trembling, first and foremost, free and easy, hale and hearty, hem and haw, hook or crook, hue and cry, kith and kin, leaps and bounds, lo a...

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... Webster’s Dictionary of Usage and Style, New York: Avenel Books, copyright 1964, 1982 ed ———, American Usage: The Consensus, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970 ———, American Usage and Style: ... Taboos, Bugbears and Outmoded Rules of English Usage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971 ———, Dos, Don’ts & Maybes of English Usage, New York: Times Books, 197...

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... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... 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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... 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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... 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 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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... 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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... 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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