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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 ... supply and de-mand, sweetness and light, sword of Damocles, take pot luck, tilt at wind-mills, tip of the iceberg, tit for tat, undera cloud, under the aegis of, vicious circle,wear and tear, ... reversal of thechronological order of events, often withafter, in an effort to update the news; and (2) use of condition in a specialsense, that of a medical prognosis, a prediction of a patient’s...

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... 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 writing, (1) an opinion of the doc-tor and (2) an opinion of the doctor’shave ... 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...

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... also LAY OFF and LAYOFF.The main standard meanings of let goare to release from conﬁnement (“Letmy people go”), to release one’s hold(“He let go [or “let go of ] the rope”) and to abandon or ... 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 ... memoranda.” It was a memorandum.A participant in a television forumsaid, “North drew up memoran-das. . . .” They were memoranda ormemorandums.Because memoranda is plural, “amemoranda” and...

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... 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 ... can weary of overlongblocks of writing. An extreme example isseen in Webster’s Third Dictionary, where paragraphs reach lengths of somefour thousand words (take and turn).Newspapers often go ... 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 ;...

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... Belgium”); and (c) introducesthat dependent clause, serving as thesubject 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 coalor of jeopardizing new trade.” Omit thesecond of; no preposition belongs thereat all.See also ADVOCATE; FREE, 1; OFF and “OFF OF ; ON, 2; WHENCE and “FROM WHENCE”; ... thought.Their function of setting off part of asentence resembles that of dashes and parentheses. (See 4, 7.) In general, com-mas least interrupt the ﬂow of the sen-tence.When the set-off matter comes...

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... 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 ... FORWARD and BACK (time); GO OFF and GOON; GREAT; SCAN.ã Pairs with opposite meanings. SeeConfusing pairs (energize and enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and sanction and sanctions);DISINGENUOUS and INGENUOUS; ... be a sentence itself).Place and in front of “pays” and “bank” and the ﬁrst “put.”The job of mayor carries little inthe way of patronage, pays only$5,000 a year and the incumbent . . .is always...

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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 ... redundant. (See also COMPAREDTO and COMPARED WITH, 1;REALLY.)The ﬁnal quotation is from a maga-zine essay by a professor of English, protesting the lowering of standards of behavior: “. . . Common...

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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: ... Bugbears and Out-moded Rules of English Usage, NewYork: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,1971.———, Dos, Don’ts & Maybes of En-glish Usage, New York: Times Books,1977.Black’s Law Dictionary, ... Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 vol., Oxford,England: Oxford University Press,1971.The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Cur-rent English, 6th ed., J. B. Sykes, Ox-ford, England: Clarendon...

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... with the inten-tion of giving up residence there. Often itis followed by from and the name of the old country. The Treskunoffs emigratedfrom Russia ten years ago.” The act orpractice of emigrating ... television, The level of facticity has dropped on the part of both of the candidates,” wasshe using a recognized word? The noun facticity is deﬁned in The Oxford English Dictionary as The quality ... is toenter and settle in a country. Often it isfollowed by to and the name of the newcountry. The Treskunoffs immigratedto the United States ten years ago.” The act or practice of immigrating...

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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 EFFECTALL TOGETHER and ALTO-GETHER (etc.)BLOC and BLOCKBORE, ... 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 wentdown . . .” (in the past tense) or The drug ... certain book on English usage uses the words (emphasesadded):Among the various other theoriesconcerning the alphabet are the hy-potheses that the alphabet wasbrought by the Philistines from...

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... Modifying.) In the ex-ample above, the writer wanted a phraseat 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 ... lastor the last of those or something similar.Among the items kept there are the diary of Nazi propaganda chiefJoseph Goebels, an X-ray of AdolphHitler’s skull and the first edition of Pravda, the ... 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 term in which the...

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... ONE and EVERY-ONE; Pronouns, 2C.ONE IN EVERY. See ONE OF, 1.ONE OF. 1. ONE OF EVERY, ONEOUT OF, etc. 2. ONE OF THE, IFNOT 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 includedin off. The of intrudes often in conver-sations and at times ... .”Change “off of to from. (And insert acomma after “Bruno.” As for the capitalT in The, ” not the writer but a quirk of his newspaper was to blame.)OFF and ON. See GO OFF and GOON.“OLDEST PROFESSION.”...

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... . . . saveby the lawful judgment of his peers orby 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 discordwhich ... England to its very core.”Put aside any doubts about the metaphor and the image it conjures of someone shaking the jewels and gildingoff a royal crown. The main problem liesin the choice of the ... aphysics professor and later by the host of a radio talk show: From the standpoint of physics, black is colorless, being the absence of light, while white contains allfrequencies of light. Therefore,...

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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 ismistakenly reversed by the use of the present perfect instead of the past per-fect: The Mohajir group called the striketo demand the release ... the like.THESE and THOSE. These is the plural of this. Those is the plural of that.A book says, about the renaissancemadrigal, “Both Lassus and Palest-rina . . . enriched the literature of...

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... isunavailable to the other three verbs,which do not go with to bed. A correc-tion is to insert another and and anotherthem: “who fed, dressed, and bathedthem and put them to bed.”VERTEBRA and VERTEBRAE.A ... transitive. Only the last has an object(them).For the younger ones, Emma wastheir mother-ﬁgure, who fed, dressed,bathed, and put them to bed. The verb put goes with to bed. The ob-ject, them, is ... is the object of the preposition for.Often the puzzle gets more compli-cated: The jurors disagreed on who [orwhom?] they felt had the stronger case.”Who is right; it is the subject of the clause...

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