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... www.dk -english. com Page 19 Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand Death of a thousand cuts If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of small ... Full of beans If someone's full of beans, they are very energetic Full of hot air Someone who is full of hot air talks a lot of rubbish Full of piss and vinegar Someone who's full of piss and ... arts and literature, and often a writer too Man of means A man, or woman, of means is wealthy Man of parts A man of parts is a person who is talented in a number of different areas or ways Man of...

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EXERCISES ON IDIOMS AND PHRASAL VERBS (1)

... A comparison of actual decisions and ideal decisions C Research on how people make decisions D Differences between long-range and short-range decision making Question The word "essential" in paragraph ... be clear about the distinction between long-range and immediate goals because long-range goals often involve a different decision from short-range ones Focusing on long-range goals, a graduating ... problem in a clear and concise way and then listing all possible solutions to the problem Next, the pertinent considerations that will be affected by each decision are listed, and the relative...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx

... 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 INCIDENCE and INCIDENT LIGATION and ... PROPHECY and PROPHESY REBUT and REFUTE REMUNERATION and RENUMERATION RESPECTABLE and RESPECTFUL REVOLT and REVOLUTION RUIN and RUINS SCALD and SCOLD 77 SET and SIT SHIMMER and SHIMMY SILICON and SILICONE...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps

... 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 on or and so forth Often it is ... single member of a particular group, which can comprise people, things, or animals Often of follows, as in “every one of our 1,500” and “each and every one of our clients.” The of and its object...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx

... 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 and RUNAWAY SET UP and SETUP JOKE, ... Multitude.” The Oxford English Dictionary says of the amalgam of kind of and plural: “This is still common colloquially, though considered grammatically incorrect.” The Random House Dictionary, pointing...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps

... 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 print A reporter ... men of science and a news service) Better: invasions of exotic species / discharger of selenium / package of aid 257 winning her concession on a point of English usage In popular use, “No way” often...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx

... 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; WHENCE and “FROM WHENCE”; ... plural and singular matters are these: BACTERIA and BACTERIUM; COHORT; CRITERIA and CRITERION; DATA; EMERITUS; GRAFFITI and GRAFFITO; HEADQUARTERS; KUDOS; MEDIA and MEDIUM; MEMORANDA and MEMORANDUM;...

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