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... Gang of Four, blamed for the worst excesses of the 1 966 –19 76 Cultural Revolution.Not the woman but her sentence wascommuted.commute 67 01-A-E_4 10/22/02 10:29 AM Page 67 Comparative and superlative ... 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 ... dark, and handsome,” leave out “both.”BOUGH and BOW. See Homo-phones.Brackets. See Punctuation, 7. 46 bough and bow01-A-E_4 10/22/02 10:29 AM Page 46 CONSENSUS. A question for twocritics and...
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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 ... Joseph Priestleywas a scientist and the discoverer of oxy-gen. He was also a philosopher, politi-cian, and theologian, and in the 1 760 she wrote The Rudiments of English Grammar. In clear prose ... 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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... 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 ... 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 ... 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...
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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 ... refers readersto OD (1955 to 1 960 ) and defines that.OD as an abbreviation (often withdots) can stand for many things, includ-ing doctor of optometry, of cer of theday, Old Dutch, ordnance...
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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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... reflects 366 reversal of meaning04-R–Z_4 10/22/02 10:33 AM Page 366 tion 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 ... FORWARD and BACK (time); GO OFF and GOON; GREAT; SCAN.• Pairs with opposite meanings. SeeConfusing pairs (energize and enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and sanction and sanctions);DISINGENUOUS and INGENUOUS;...
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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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... Clarendon Press,19 76. Roy H. Copperud, Webster’s Dictionary of Usage and Style, New York: AvenelBooks, copyright 1 964 , 1982 ed.———, American Usage: The Consen-sus, New York: Van Nostrand Rein-hold, ... 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 ... 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, 6th...
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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 ... Joseph Priestleywas a scientist and the discoverer of oxy-gen. He was also a philosopher, politi-cian, and theologian, and in the 1 760 she wrote The Rudiments of English Grammar. In clear prose ... 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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... BORNCAPITAL and CAPITOLCOMPLEMENT and COMPLI-MENTEXERCISE and EXORCISEFAUN and FAWNFAZE and PHASEGRISLY, GRIZZLY, and GRIZZLEDHEROIN and HEROINEINCIDENCE and INCIDENTITS and IT’SLEAD (verb) and ... form(with his brother in The King’s English, 19 06) and publicize it (in his famous Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 19 26) .The four examples below come froma book of true adventure, an editorial,an ... meaningsHarper Dictionary (1985) reportedthat only 36 percent of a usage panel of 166 members accepted the modern sense of gay. Some expressed anger. Isaac Asi-mov: “This use of ‘gay’ has killed...
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