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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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... 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 ... Joseph Priestleywas a scientist and the discoverer of oxy-gen. He was also a philosopher, politi-cian, and theologian, and in the 176 0she wrote The Rudiments of English Grammar. In clear prose...

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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 ... expression of sympathy with aperson in distress; condolence, an ex-pression of such sympathy; and sympa-thy, an understanding of and a sharing inone’s grief, pain, or other feelings.METAL and METTLE....

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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 ;...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx

... 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.• 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...

Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt

... Bugbears and Out-moded Rules of English Usage, NewYork: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,1 971 .———, Dos, Don’ts & Maybes of En-glish Usage, New York: Times Books,1 977 .Black’s Law Dictionary, ... Press,1 976 .Roy H. Copperud, 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, 1 970 .———, ... Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 vol., Oxford,England: Oxford University Press,1 971 .The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Cur-rent English, 6th ed., J. B. Sykes, Ox-ford, England: Clarendon...

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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 176 0she 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 ... 179 text. 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 ... obituary notices,meaning in memory.IMMIGRATE and EMIGRATE.See EMIGRATE and IMMIGRATE.immigrate and emigrate 177 02-F–L_4 10/22/02 10:30 AM Page 177 . . . Until the late 1980s it generallygave...

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