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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 ... about the weather.” / “Speak of the devil.” /“ The time has come,’ the Walrus said,‘to talk of many things. . . . ’ ” / The professor will speak on the importance of good English. ”SPECIE and ... have shaken the crown of 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...

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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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... Plain English, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 199 6. The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, Sylvia Chalker and Ed-mund Weiner, Oxford, England:Clarendon Press, 199 4. The Oxford Dictionary of ... Publish-ing Co., 196 8. The Chicago Manual of Style, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 198 2. The College Standard Dictionary of the reference works 487REFERENCE WORKSMany of the reference ... 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...

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... 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 at opportunities awaitingthem in the real ... by an American publisher for American read-ers, but the author is British and his dis-cussion of the future of the universe istaken from a lecture at the University of Cambridge, England. Unless ... medical profession, the middleclass. 9. Personiﬁcation. In poetic usage, common words put in human terms arecapitalized: the lute of Hope . . . the voice of Love . . . the wand of Power.”10....

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... (has-ten and of- ten).A hyphenated compound, such ashang-up or send-off, should be dividedat the hyphen and nowhere else. Yet onewas published as “han-” and “gup” and the other as “sen-” and “d-off” ... the foreign foreign lo-cale.” Foreign is the original meaning of exotic, which comes from the Greekword for outside. The sense of intro-duced from abroad and then the senses of strange and ... Joseph Priestleywas a scientist and the discoverer of oxy-gen. He was also a philosopher, politi-cian, and theologian, and in the 1760she wrote The Rudiments of English Grammar. In clear prose...

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... 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 ... figuremidway in a set of figures arranged in or-der 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.) ... 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...

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