Many) or parts of a continuum (therefore much)? Thank you. (many?) as 20% of the total periodical collection." Are percents individual units In referring to a percentage, as in the sentence "The library is about to cut as much I would like to know whether "much" or "many" is correct If it simply belongs or is based in that region, I'd go with region. If the Health Department in question here functions on a regional basis, that's the word I would use. There's probably not a whole lot of difference, and you might well determine the usage here by what they've been doing in other regions. Sentence? Your assistance would be much appreciated! Thank you! What happens by adding the 'al' to Region? Does it change the meaning of the I am trying to figure out the correct term to use: There's probably not a whole lot of difference, and you might well judge the usage here by what's Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Electronic Edition.
Used with the permission of Oxford University Press. When you mean "associated with electricity" in a more general way, as in "electrical engineering," you want the word "electrical" also, you want to avoid ambiguity when you're using the word to mean "bright" or "exciting": "She was an electric speaker" and "The room was electric with tension." A storm can be either "electric" or "electrical."Īuthority: The New Fowler's Modern English Usage edited by R.W. Nearly always, the word "electric" will suffice. Whenever you use an electric tool" OR ".whenever you use an electrical tool'? Is it: "You should wear eye and hearing protection
Merriam-Webster's lists "each other" as a pronoun unto itself, and that, I think, is how it's being used in this sentence. Would other be a noun and each be a modifier? In the sentence 'Hundreds of soldiers faced each other' would the words 'each other'īe considered a pronoun acting together in reference to the subject hundreds or
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The Chicago Manual of Style seems to provide for this discretion: "the decision might be based on a blend of considerations familiarity, inclusion in a dictionary, and sympathy with the reader."Īuthority: Chicago Manual of Style 14th ed. In other words, part of this decision to italicize or not is going to depend on how often you actually use the word or phrase. If, for example, the task of your essay was to define the Chinese concept of feng shui, you might italicize the phrase the first time it is used, and then leave it in normal font in subsequent uses. If the foreign word is something that your readers might well know or even if they might have access to its definition in a standard dictionary you can leave the word in standard Roman text, unitalicized. If I italicize a foreign word in my essay once, do I have to The Grammar Logs - Number Three Hundred, Seventy-Three The
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