In my opinion, just because "an other" is "vanishingly rare", that doesn't make its usage "unacceptable". In my situation, which is advising (via a letter) a candidate for an employment position who has not been chosen, it doesn't seem appropriate for me to tell him that "another" candidate has been selected, but it does seem appropriate for me to tell him that "an other" …

2015年10月11日 · "Womb" makes me think of motherhood (which is the last thing I want to come to the readers' minds while reading these scenes) or animals. "Gash" sounds like it would be better used to describe flesh wounds. "Hole" sounds very ominous and generic. Other words like "pussy" or "c*nt" are too slang-ish, even offensive.

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I thought this might have already been asked, but apparently not. Is using the phrase "one another" considered equivalent to the phrase "one and other"? Is one of the two considered right and the other wrong? To give an example: The two computers were situated relatively close to …

2012年12月6日 · Generally speaking, you can replace the usage of "which" with "what" and be OK grammatically. It doesn't always work the other way around, however. There needs to be a context of choice. For example: Which/What flavor of ice cream do you want? Either is fine, but "which" is better. Which/What do you want for dessert?

Some of the beads are missing. Some of the water is gone. On the other hand, there is one indefinite pronoun, none, that can be either singular or plural; it often doesn't matter whether you use a singular or a plural verb — unless something else in the sentence determines its number.

2010年9月27日 · The practice in other English-speaking countries is often the reverse: single marks are used first, then double, and so on. 11.35 Quotation marks in block quotations. Although material set off as a block quote is not enclosed in quotation marks, quoted matter within the block quote is enclosed in double quotation marks—in other words, treated ...

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2012年3月1日 · This is a material-specific idiosyncrasy in that a) the implement is always assumed to be at least a tablespoon (there is no such thing as a "teaspoon of milo"), b) it is always of much greater quantity than "heaped" of other materials, and c) there is no singular, it is always plural. –