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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 notgo with “some kind of Mafia involve-ment” (in the third ... “Twelve gallons of gasoline fills my tank.”See also AMOUNT and NUMBER;FEWER and LESS; MANY and MUCH;Numbers; Verbs, 3. Colon. See Punctuation, 2.COME and CAME. The basic form of the verb come ... estimatedthat about 3 million American girls,most of them between the ages of 9 and 15, took off a day from schoolyesterday to go to work with theirparents or other adults and get acloser look...
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... single member of a particular group, which can comprisepeople, things, or animals. Often of fol-lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... Perhaps the writer of the headline knew better and was try-ing to achieve some kind of effect, be-sides the effect of making the newspaperseem illiterate and causing hundreds of English teachers ... idiom and notconsidered wrong.Nobody minds when the possessive isa pronoun instead of a noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers. Nobody islikely to say “friends of me” or “a dress of her.”In...
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... rarekind 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 ANKind of in another sense may go witha. Being a kind of ... anaverage. It 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 ... mean and the median are bothaverages.ME and I. See Pronouns, 10.ME and MYSELF. See Pronouns, 3, 4.Measures, quantities. See AMOUNT and NUMBER; Collective nouns, 3; FEWER and LESS; MANY and...
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... 13, 833 troops the Soviets say they lost ineight years of fighting in Afghanistan.Can there possibly be any reader whodoes not know that $30 0 is less than $33 0 or that 14 ,37 7 is more than 13, 833 ?See ... overdrawn, and the right eye (from the Latin oculusdexter, used on prescriptions).-ODD. See SOME.-O ending. See Plurals and singulars,2J. OF. See COMPRISE; HAVE, HAS,HAD, 2; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 3; Prepositions; ... TheAmericans had the choice of not blowingthem out of the sky; the choice of talkinginstead of shooting; the choice of goinghome. Life presents most of us with in-numerable choices, and...
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... a cer-tain dictionary. PREREQUISITE and PERQUI-SITE.See PERQUISITE and PRE-REQUISITE.prerequisite and perquisite 30 3 03- M–Q_4 10/22/02 10 :32 AM Page 30 3one another.” / “Romeo and Josephine ... thesubject of its verb (lives or comes).(See THAT and WHICH; WHO,THAT, and WHICH.)PROOF and EVIDENCE. See EVI-DENCE and PROOF.PROOF OF THE PUDDING. Theproverb about proof and pudding per-plexes ... inMadison, and 20 of the Empire StateBuildings are on display in, where else,the lobby of the Empire State Buildingat Fifth Avenue and 34 th Street. 34 2 punctuation 03- M–Q_4 10/22/02 10 :32 AM Page 34 2PRESCRIBE...
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... reflects 36 6 reversal of meaning04-R–Z_4 10/22/02 10 :33 AM Page 36 6tion of political favoritism in a federaldepartment, a congressman asked a for-mer subordinate of the secretary of housing and ... judgment of his peers orby the law of the land. . . . . . . For the sake of God, and forthe bettering of our realm, and for themore ready healing of the discordwhich has arisen between us and ... and RENU-MERATION.During an investiga-remuneration and renumeration 36 304-R–Z_4 10/22/02 10 :33 AM Page 36 3SEX and GENDER. See GENDER and SEX.SEXY. Sexy is a colloquial adjectivethat means...
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... longstretches of human history.” May onealso 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 ... notready to write of “Italian Navigator and Discoverer of the New World Christo-pher Columbus,” or of “Commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolution and Father of His CountryGeorge ... 10/22/02 10 :33 AM Page 419VICE-PRESIDENT-IN-CHARGE- OF- EVAPORATED-CONDENSED- AND MALTED MILK-CHEESE-MINCE MEAT -AND- CARAMELSARTHUR W. RAMSDELL AND VICE-PRESIDENT-IN-CHARGE- OF- CASEIN-ADHESIVES -AND- PRESCRIPTION-PRODUCTS...
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... Webster’s Dictionary of Usage and Style, New York: AvenelBooks, copyright 1964, 1982 ed.———, American Usage: The Consen-sus, New York: Van Nostrand Rein-hold, 1970.———, American Usage and Style: ... and BEST, WORSE and WORST.WOULD and WILL. See Doublenegative, 1; Subjunctive, 2, 3; Tense, 4.WOULD HAVE, WOULD’VE, and “WOULD OF. ” See HAVE,HAS, HAD, 2.WRACK. See RACK and WRACK.WREAK and ... 10/22/02 10 :33 AM Page 457Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary, Julie E. Towell and HelenE. Sheppard, Detroit: Gale ResearchCo., 1988.The American Heritage Dictionary of the English...
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... single member of a particular group, which can comprisepeople, things, or animals. Often of fol-lows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object ... idiom and notconsidered wrong.Nobody minds when the possessive isa pronoun instead of a noun: friends of mine and a dress of hers. Nobody islikely to say “friends of me” or “a dress of her.”In ... level of facticity has dropped onthe part of both of the candidates,” wasshe using a recognized word?The noun facticity is defined in TheOxford English Dictionary as “Thequality or condition of...
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... BORNCAPITAL and CAPITOLCOMPLEMENT and COMPLI-MENTEXERCISE and EXORCISEFAUN and FAWNFAZE and PHASEGRISLY, GRIZZLY, and GRIZZLEDHEROIN and HEROINEINCIDENCE and INCIDENTITS and IT’SLEAD (verb) and ... 179text. Examples are the nouns chance (of or to) and intention (of or to), verbs fail(at or to) and think (of or to), and adjec-tives sorry (about or to) and sure (of orto).4. Possessive with gerundJust ... experimentation.A theory is bolstered by a good deal of evidence and usually is more elaborate.hypothesis and theory 1 73 02-F–L_4 10/22/02 10 :30 AM Page 1 73 In the words of an institute’s execu-tive, educational...
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