There are a few instances where the words are not synonyms. These include the botanical entire, meaning a leaf without an indented edge, or in farming parlance entire meaning uncastrated. In mathematics you could have a whole number, but not an entire one. But if you ignore these special meanings they are more or less interchangeable, except as ...

2018年5月30日 · the entire garden field. There's nothing else entire could really be modifying here. The collision with little makes it awkward in its normal position (the entire, little garden field), since it's such a different function from the other adjective. One is describing the field itself while the other is qualifying the portion of the field walked ...

2014年10月6日 · Entire means whole, all parts of. Now, the entire group (of boys) means the whole group (as opposed to a part of the group), whereas entire boys means whole boys (as opposed to parts of boys — arms, legs, heads). The entire car -> the whole car, tires, seats, engine, etc The entire group of cars -> the whole group, every single car in the group

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This post on 9GAG claims that the actual proverbs read:. Curiosity killed the cat. > Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

2017年5月3日 · No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were.

2012年12月25日 · Me, I always thought of the eve as being the night before a holiday (or anything else), not the entire calendar day before as it seems now to mean — and I wonder when and why that has changed. So Christmas Eve Night seems like a pleonasm to me. And it seems that I am not alone based on this article published on Christmas Eve Eve Eve of 2012:

2012年7月7日 · Removing the entire parenthetical remark from the first sentence still leaves me with a valid structure, while removing it from the second leaves me lacking any terminal punctuation; thus the first is correct. References: The Punctuation Guide; Study.com; Grammar Girl

2022年4月3日 · How should you start a letter when addressing an entire family? Dear The Jones Family, or. Dear Jones Family, I was discussing this with my wife and I preferred the former while my wife prefers the latter. The second one sounds wrong to me but I'm not sure if it is only because I'm not used to it.

Now, it is still acceptable to place the period outside the quotation marks in this case. However, if the quotation spans the entire sentence from capital letter to fullstop, and/or continues for multiple sentences and comprises a full paragraph, the quotation should enclose the final period.