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HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES What are split infinitives? An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to—for example, to walk, to inflect, to split.. A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push.. Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school classrooms, they’re HOW TO USE LITTLE TO NO OR LITTLE TO NONE A slippery one! If I don’t think closely about it, all these forms are interchangeable. However, when I consider the subtleties, there feels like there is a distinction between little to no and little or no.I think it depends on whether the phrase is modifying a continuüm or quantitative noun, or whether the following word is just abstract. HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying THE HILL YOU WANT TO DIE ON IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom the hill you want to die on has become increasing popular since the 1980s. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT IDIOM DEFINITION A day late and a dollar short is another way to say too little too late. When a person is a day late and a dollar short, he has not only missed an opportunity due to tardiness, but also because he has not put forth enough effort.Originally, the phrase a day late and a dollar short most probably referred to not having enough money to avail oneself of something. HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES What are split infinitives? An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to—for example, to walk, to inflect, to split.. A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push.. Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school classrooms, they’re HOW TO USE LITTLE TO NO OR LITTLE TO NONE A slippery one! If I don’t think closely about it, all these forms are interchangeable. However, when I consider the subtleties, there feels like there is a distinction between little to no and little or no.I think it depends on whether the phrase is modifying a continuüm or quantitative noun, or whether the following word is just abstract. HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying THE HILL YOU WANT TO DIE ON IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom the hill you want to die on has become increasing popular since the 1980s. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT IDIOM DEFINITION A day late and a dollar short is another way to say too little too late. When a person is a day late and a dollar short, he has not only missed an opportunity due to tardiness, but also because he has not put forth enough effort.Originally, the phrase a day late and a dollar short most probably referred to not having enough money to avail oneself of something. HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying HOW TO USE SOMEBODY VS. SOMEONE CORRECTLY And this would be slightly clunkier: Others enjoy having somebody in the car to argue with. But someone doesn’t always sound better than somebody.. For example, consider how much clunkier this sentence would sound if somebody and someone were switched:. There’s something that somebody doesn’t want someone to see at the Berlin Film Festival. HOW TO USE TO VS. TOO CORRECTLY To is a versatile preposition.A few of its many definitions are (1) toward, (2) reaching as far as, and (3) until. 1 Too is an adverb meaning (1) additionally, (2) excessively, (3) very, or (4) extremely. 2 Whenever you’re in doubt about whether to use to or too, see if any of those synonyms of too (i.e., additionally, extremely, etc.) would work in its place. A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT IDIOM DEFINITION A day late and a dollar short is another way to say too little too late. When a person is a day late and a dollar short, he has not only missed an opportunity due to tardiness, but also because he has not put forth enough effort.Originally, the phrase a day late and a dollar short most probably referred to not having enough money to avail oneself of something. FOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE OR WISDOM VS FONT OF Font of knowledge and font of wisdom are mondegreens, which are phrases rendered by misinterpreting the proper terms. One meaning of font is a structure in a church that contains water for baptism ceremonies. Water in a baptismal font is still, The picture of a fountain with jets of water spurting in the air depicts the idea of abundance, fitting for the idea of someone or something with an HOW TO USE SHINED VS. SHONE CORRECTLY The verb shine has two main definitions: (1) to emit light, and (2) to cause to gleam by polishing.In its first sense, shine traditionally becomes shone in the past tense and as a past participle.In its second sense, shine is traditionally inflected shined.So, for example, we might say, “The sun shone brightly while I WATERSHED MOMENT IDIOM DEFINITION A watershed moment is a turning point, the exact moment that changes the direction of an activity or situation. A watershed moment is a dividing point, from which things will never be the same. It is considered momentous, though a watershed moment is often recognized in hindsight. The word watershed is used literally to mean an area of land that divides the flow of separate rivers, or the high GO TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET To go to hell in a handbasket means to go to one’s doom, to deteriorate quickly, to proceed on a course to disaster. The phrase go to hell in a handbasket is an American phrase which came into general use during the American Civil War, though its popularity has spread into other countries. The origin of the term go to hell in a handbasket is unknown, the assumption is that the word RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing.Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur.But while this spelling is common and has a long history, many people consider it wrong. HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to —for example, to walk, to inflect, to split . A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push . Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an HOW TO USE WAKE VS AWAKE CORRECTLY Awake also means to stop sleeping, to rouse from sleep, to come to life, to become alert. However, awake may also be used as an adjective. Related words are awakes, awaken, awakened, awakening.Awake comes from the Old English word awæcnan meaning to arise or to originate.. Examples. For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents. HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR Restaurateur vs. restauranteur. The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing. Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur. But while this spelling is common and has a HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to —for example, to walk, to inflect, to split . A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push . Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an HOW TO USE WAKE VS AWAKE CORRECTLY Awake also means to stop sleeping, to rouse from sleep, to come to life, to become alert. However, awake may also be used as an adjective. Related words are awakes, awaken, awakened, awakening.Awake comes from the Old English word awæcnan meaning to arise or to originate.. Examples. For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents. HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR Restaurateur vs. restauranteur. The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing. Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur. But while this spelling is common and has a HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying HOW TO USE ORAL VS. VERBAL CORRECTLY English authorities have traditionally urged against using verbal in reference to spoken things—for example, verbal/oral communications, verbal/oral reports, and verbal/oral warnings—but verbal is increasingly used in these phrases, perhaps in part due to oral‘s prurient associations.But oral is still a good word, so one does not have to follow the trend toward favoring verbal. HOW TO USE AN HISTORIC CORRECTLY In all main varieties of English, the use of an as the article preceding historic (an historic) is an unnecessary affectation.The rule for the indefinite article is that we use a before words beginning with a consonant sound, and an before words beginning with a vowel sound. The h at the beginning of historic is a consonant sound, soft though it may be. HOW TO USE GENDER VS. SEX CORRECTLY Gender was traditionally used mainly in grammar, language, and linguistics contexts to refer to the sex assigned to nouns (especially in non-English languages).For example, the gender of the French noun maison (house) is feminine, while the gender of livre (book) is masculine.Words of the same gender tend to have similar endings, and they affect the forms of some of the surrounding words. HOW TO USE ENTITLED VS. TITLED CORRECTLY Entitled vs. titled. When they are synonymous with named or called, there is no substantive difference between entitled and titled. Some people object to this use entitled, but the objection is baseless. The use of entitled to mean named goes back centuries, and entitled was in fact the preferred term until recently. SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison GO TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET To go to hell in a handbasket means to go to one’s doom, to deteriorate quickly, to proceed on a course to disaster. The phrase go to hell in a handbasket is an American phrase which came into general use during the American Civil War, though its popularity has spread into other countries. The origin of the term go to hell in a handbasket is unknown, the assumption is that the word HOW TO USE ROLLOUT VS. ROLL OUT CORRECTLY Rollout vs. roll out. As a noun or adjective, rollout is one word. Some publications, especially British ones, prefer the hyphenated roll-out, but the one-word form is well established and fairly common even in the U.K. When you need a term meaning to implement a product,service,
HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to —for example, to walk, to inflect, to split . A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push . Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an HOW TO USE WAKE VS AWAKE CORRECTLY Awake also means to stop sleeping, to rouse from sleep, to come to life, to become alert. However, awake may also be used as an adjective. Related words are awakes, awaken, awakened, awakening.Awake comes from the Old English word awæcnan meaning to arise or to originate.. Examples. For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents. HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR Restaurateur vs. restauranteur. The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing. Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur. But while this spelling is common and has a HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to —for example, to walk, to inflect, to split . A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push . Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an HOW TO USE WAKE VS AWAKE CORRECTLY Awake also means to stop sleeping, to rouse from sleep, to come to life, to become alert. However, awake may also be used as an adjective. Related words are awakes, awaken, awakened, awakening.Awake comes from the Old English word awæcnan meaning to arise or to originate.. Examples. For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents. HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR Restaurateur vs. restauranteur. The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing. Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur. But while this spelling is common and has a HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying HOW TO USE ORAL VS. VERBAL CORRECTLY English authorities have traditionally urged against using verbal in reference to spoken things—for example, verbal/oral communications, verbal/oral reports, and verbal/oral warnings—but verbal is increasingly used in these phrases, perhaps in part due to oral‘s prurient associations.But oral is still a good word, so one does not have to follow the trend toward favoring verbal. HOW TO USE AN HISTORIC CORRECTLY In all main varieties of English, the use of an as the article preceding historic (an historic) is an unnecessary affectation.The rule for the indefinite article is that we use a before words beginning with a consonant sound, and an before words beginning with a vowel sound. The h at the beginning of historic is a consonant sound, soft though it may be. HOW TO USE GENDER VS. SEX CORRECTLY Gender was traditionally used mainly in grammar, language, and linguistics contexts to refer to the sex assigned to nouns (especially in non-English languages).For example, the gender of the French noun maison (house) is feminine, while the gender of livre (book) is masculine.Words of the same gender tend to have similar endings, and they affect the forms of some of the surrounding words. HOW TO USE ENTITLED VS. TITLED CORRECTLY Entitled vs. titled. When they are synonymous with named or called, there is no substantive difference between entitled and titled. Some people object to this use entitled, but the objection is baseless. The use of entitled to mean named goes back centuries, and entitled was in fact the preferred term until recently. SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison GO TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET To go to hell in a handbasket means to go to one’s doom, to deteriorate quickly, to proceed on a course to disaster. The phrase go to hell in a handbasket is an American phrase which came into general use during the American Civil War, though its popularity has spread into other countries. The origin of the term go to hell in a handbasket is unknown, the assumption is that the word HOW TO USE ROLLOUT VS. ROLL OUT CORRECTLY Rollout vs. roll out. As a noun or adjective, rollout is one word. Some publications, especially British ones, prefer the hyphenated roll-out, but the one-word form is well established and fairly common even in the U.K. When you need a term meaning to implement a product,service,
HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to —for example, to walk, to inflect, to split . A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push . Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an HOW TO USE WAKE VS AWAKE CORRECTLY Awake also means to stop sleeping, to rouse from sleep, to come to life, to become alert. However, awake may also be used as an adjective. Related words are awakes, awaken, awakened, awakening.Awake comes from the Old English word awæcnan meaning to arise or to originate.. Examples. For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents. HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR Restaurateur vs. restauranteur. The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing. Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur. But while this spelling is common and has a HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to —for example, to walk, to inflect, to split . A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push . Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an HOW TO USE WAKE VS AWAKE CORRECTLY Awake also means to stop sleeping, to rouse from sleep, to come to life, to become alert. However, awake may also be used as an adjective. Related words are awakes, awaken, awakened, awakening.Awake comes from the Old English word awæcnan meaning to arise or to originate.. Examples. For more than a day, the 7-year-old girl had been trying to wake her parents. HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR Restaurateur vs. restauranteur. The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing. Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur. But while this spelling is common and has a HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying HOW TO USE ORAL VS. VERBAL CORRECTLY English authorities have traditionally urged against using verbal in reference to spoken things—for example, verbal/oral communications, verbal/oral reports, and verbal/oral warnings—but verbal is increasingly used in these phrases, perhaps in part due to oral‘s prurient associations.But oral is still a good word, so one does not have to follow the trend toward favoring verbal. HOW TO USE AN HISTORIC CORRECTLY In all main varieties of English, the use of an as the article preceding historic (an historic) is an unnecessary affectation.The rule for the indefinite article is that we use a before words beginning with a consonant sound, and an before words beginning with a vowel sound. The h at the beginning of historic is a consonant sound, soft though it may be. HOW TO USE GENDER VS. SEX CORRECTLY Gender was traditionally used mainly in grammar, language, and linguistics contexts to refer to the sex assigned to nouns (especially in non-English languages).For example, the gender of the French noun maison (house) is feminine, while the gender of livre (book) is masculine.Words of the same gender tend to have similar endings, and they affect the forms of some of the surrounding words. HOW TO USE ENTITLED VS. TITLED CORRECTLY Entitled vs. titled. When they are synonymous with named or called, there is no substantive difference between entitled and titled. Some people object to this use entitled, but the objection is baseless. The use of entitled to mean named goes back centuries, and entitled was in fact the preferred term until recently. SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison GO TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET To go to hell in a handbasket means to go to one’s doom, to deteriorate quickly, to proceed on a course to disaster. The phrase go to hell in a handbasket is an American phrase which came into general use during the American Civil War, though its popularity has spread into other countries. The origin of the term go to hell in a handbasket is unknown, the assumption is that the word HOW TO USE ROLLOUT VS. ROLL OUT CORRECTLY Rollout vs. roll out. As a noun or adjective, rollout is one word. Some publications, especially British ones, prefer the hyphenated roll-out, but the one-word form is well established and fairly common even in the U.K. When you need a term meaning to implement a product,service,
HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to —for example, to walk, to inflect, to split . A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push . Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an GO TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET To go to hell in a handbasket means to go to one’s doom, to deteriorate quickly, to proceed on a course to disaster. The phrase go to hell in a handbasket is an American phrase which came into general use during the American Civil War, though its popularity has spread into other countries. The origin of the term go to hell in a handbasket is unknown, the assumption is that the word SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR Restaurateur vs. restauranteur. The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing. Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur. But while this spelling is common and has a HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to —for example, to walk, to inflect, to split . A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push . Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an GO TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET To go to hell in a handbasket means to go to one’s doom, to deteriorate quickly, to proceed on a course to disaster. The phrase go to hell in a handbasket is an American phrase which came into general use during the American Civil War, though its popularity has spread into other countries. The origin of the term go to hell in a handbasket is unknown, the assumption is that the word SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR Restaurateur vs. restauranteur. The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing. Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur. But while this spelling is common and has a HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government FRENCH ALPHABET PRONUNCIATION French and English use the same alphabet (unlike the Spanish alphabet, for example, which has a few extra letters), but the letters are pronounced differently: The unaccented French e is pronounced similarly to the e in the English word the, but slightly shorter and further back in the throat. The French letters g and j are pronouncedwith a
VICE PRESIDENT (CAPITALIZATION AND HYPHENATION) Vice President is usually capitalized when it is a title that comes immediately before the name of the vice president of a country—e.g., Vice President Biden.When it is a title that applies to other types of vice presidents (e.g., vice presidents of companies and universities), it is rarely capitalized in edited publications, but it is often capitalized in the official documents of companiesHOME IN VS. HONE IN
Home in. Bone cancer is sometimes treated with radioactive isotopes that home in on the bone. [But now the sharks were starting to home in on the large groups that had amassed during the past thirty-six hours. But they do reveal Dahl’s uncanny ability to home in on the darker reaches of human ingenuity. NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED The phrase no good deed goes unpunished is a cynical twist on the idea that good people are rewarded for being good. In real life, this is often not the case. The proverb no good deed goes unpunished has been variously attributed to Walter Winchell, John P. Grier,LICENCE VS. LICENSE
Licence vs. license. In American English, license is both a noun and a verb, and licence isn’t used. For example, one who is licensed to drive has a driver’s license. In all the other main varieties of English, licence is the noun, and license is the verb. So, for instance, one who is licensed to perform dental surgery has a dentalsurgeon
HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES What are split infinitives? An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to—for example, to walk, to inflect, to split.. A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push.. Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school classrooms, they’re HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an GO TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET To go to hell in a handbasket means to go to one’s doom, to deteriorate quickly, to proceed on a course to disaster. The phrase go to hell in a handbasket is an American phrase which came into general use during the American Civil War, though its popularity has spread into other countries. The origin of the term go to hell in a handbasket is unknown, the assumption is that the word SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing.Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur.But while this spelling is common and has a long history, many people consider it wrong. HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. SPLIT INFINITIVES GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES What are split infinitives? An infinitive is the uninflected form of a verb along with to—for example, to walk, to inflect, to split.. A split infinitive is created by placing an adverb or adverbial phrase between the to and the verb—for example, to boldly go, to casually walk, to gently push.. Although split infinitives have been widely condemned in grade-school classrooms, they’re HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are QUE SERA SERA IDIOM DEFINITION Que sera sera is often interpreted as meaning whatever will be, will be.Que sera sera is a phrase that one might speak when he is resigned to a situation or is at peace with whatever outcome may come about from a situation.Que sera sera is a phrase that carries the connotation of leaving one’s life in the hands of fate. The idiom que sera sera was popularized in the 1950s when Doris Day, an GO TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET To go to hell in a handbasket means to go to one’s doom, to deteriorate quickly, to proceed on a course to disaster. The phrase go to hell in a handbasket is an American phrase which came into general use during the American Civil War, though its popularity has spread into other countries. The origin of the term go to hell in a handbasket is unknown, the assumption is that the word SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY IDIOM DEFINITION The idiom six ways from Sunday means in every way possible, having done something completely, having addressed every alternative.Six ways from Sunday seems to have its origins in the middle eighteenth century as the phrases both ways from Sunday and two ways from Sunday.These earlier phrases referred to the eye condition known as strabismus, where someone’s eyes do not focus in unison HEALTHCARE VS. HEALTH CARE Healthcare is on its way to becoming a one-word noun throughout the English-speaking world.The change is well underway in British publications, where healthcare already appears about three times as often as health care and is used as both a noun and an adjective. Many American and Canadian publications resist the change, meanwhile, and health care remains the more common form in North American RESTAURATEUR VS. RESTAURANTEUR The French word for a person who owns or runs a restaurant is restaurateur, with no n, and this is the spelling used most often in English, especially in edited writing.Restauranteur, with an n, appears in English about once for every ten instances of restaurateur.But while this spelling is common and has a long history, many people consider it wrong. HOW TO USE THAT OR WHO CORRECTLY So the goal would be to look for companies who sell products that are in demand overseas. As for whether it’s okay to use who in reference to animals, this is a matter of preference.Some people think of their cats, for instance, as thinking beings with real personalities and wouldn’t hesitate to refer tothem with who.
HOW TO USE LEARNINGS CORRECTLY Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun.Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries.Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned. HOW TO USE AND YET CORRECTLY Elsewhere, and yet at the start of a sentence is rhetorical shorthand, often followed by a comma and usually meaning, “That may be so, but” Ms. Hill, a 50-year-old voice-over actress, said she had been feeling a spiritual drift away from Christmas for several years. And yet, each December she continued to go through the motions of sending out holiday cards, decorating the house, buying HOW TO USE MR., MRS., MS. AND MISS CORRECTLY Ms. is a title used before a surname of full name of a female whether she is married or not.Ms. has been in use since the 1950s, it is a portmanteau of the words Miss and Missus. The title of Ms. was popularized by Ms. magazine in the 1970s.Miss is a title used before a surname or full name of an unmarried female.Miss is an abbreviation of mistress.Note that each of these common titles are HOW TO USE THAT VS. WHICH CORRECTLY Restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. That is generally more useful for introducing restrictive clauses (clauses that give essential information about the preceding noun), and which is more useful for introducing nonrestrictive clauses (clauses that give nonessential information). Consider this example: House Republicans scrambled Friday to finish work on a bill that will keep the government USE VS UTILIZE GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION RULES Use means to engage with something in order to accomplish a task, achieve a goal, or take an advantage.Use may also mean to exploit someone or something.In these cases, use functions as a transitive verb, which is a verb that takes an object. Related words are uses, used, using. When use functions as a verb, the s is pronounced as a z.Use is also used as a noun, to mean the action or ability FRENCH ALPHABET PRONUNCIATION The unaccented French e is pronounced similarly to the e in the English word the, but slightly shorter and further back in the throat. The French letters g and j are pronounced with a soft jhay sound similar to the s in Asia.The vowel sounds in the French letters are switched—g being jhay, and j being jhee.HOME IN VS. HONE IN
Home in. Bone cancer is sometimes treated with radioactive isotopes that home in on the bone. [But now the sharks were starting to home in on the large groups that had amassed during the past thirty-six hours. But they do reveal Dahl’s uncanny ability to home in on the darker reaches of human ingenuity. NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED No good deed goes unpunished may mean that a kind action might not be properly appreciated by the recipient, or it may mean that doing something kind will lead to expectations and demands for more help and benefits. The idea is that in the end, many people do not appreciate the effort behind a kindness, or may believe they deserve somethingthat they do not.
LICENCE VS. LICENSE
In American English, license is both a noun and a verb, and licence isn’t used.For example, one who is licensed to drive has a driver’s license. In all the other main varieties of English, licence is the noun, and license is the verb.So, for instance, one whois licensed to
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LAND ON ONE’S FEET Land on one's feet is an idiom that seems to have come into common use in the 1800s, though the idea may have been in use much longer. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery or metaphors, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal or conversational. English idioms can … RUB SOMEONE THE WRONG WAY AND RUB SOMEONE UP THE WRONG WAY Rub someone the wrong way and rub someone up the wrong way are variations of the same idiom. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery or metaphors, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal or conversational. English idioms can illustrate emotion morequickly than a …
CURL ONE’S HAIR
The idiom curl one's hair has an uncertain origin. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery or metaphors, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal or conversational. English idioms can illustrate emotion more quickly than a phrase that has a literal meaning, even when …DRAW A BLANK
Draw a blank is an idiom that dates back hundreds of years. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery or metaphors, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal or conversational. English idioms can illustrate emotion more quickly than a phrase that has a literal meaning, … STICK ONE’S NECK OUT Stick one's neck out is an American idiom. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery or metaphors, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal or conversational. English idioms can illustrate emotion more quickly than a phrase that has a literal meaning, even when the … DO A 180 OR DO A 360 Do a 180 and do a 360 are idioms that came into use in the mid-twentieth century. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery or metaphors, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal or conversational. English idioms can illustrate emotion more quickly than a phrase that has …AUGUST VS AUGUST
August and august are two words that are spelled identically but are pronounced differently and have different meanings, which makes them heteronyms. These word pairs are often misused words. Heteronyms exist because of our ever-changing English language, and these words with the same spelling and different pronunciation and meaning are a challenge for those who wish to learn to speak English. It can be difficult to learn how to spell different words that look the same but are not pronounced the … SHIPS PASSING IN THE NIGHT Ships passing in the night, sometimes rendered as ships that pass in the night, is an idiom that has been in use since the mid-1800s. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery or metaphors, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal or conversational. English idioms can … MOP THE FLOOR WITH SOMEONE AND WIPE THE FLOOR WITH SOMEONE Mop the floor with someone and wipe the floor with someone are two variations of an idiom. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery or metaphors, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal or conversational. English idioms can illustrate emotion more quickly than a phrase …POOH-POOHED
Pooh-poohed is an odd idiom with roots in the 1500s. An idiom is a word, group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. Often using descriptive imagery or metaphors, common idioms are words and phrases used in the English language in order to convey a concise idea, and are often spoken or are considered informal or conversational. English idioms can illustrate emotion more quickly than a phrase that has a literal meaning, even when …* 1
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