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- Entry(s) or Entrie(s)? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Well, it's very easy to rule out the first option (since “entrys” is not a word) Let's forget the prepositional phrase (“of N word-to-be-decided”) for now How would you phrase the sentence with varying numbers? “0 entry selected” or “0 entries selected”? (Ignoring that many style guides will tell you spell out the numeral), the latter is correct “1 entry selected" or “1
- Sugarcane or Sugar cane? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is there a difference between "sugar cane" and sugarcane? Is sugarcane wrong? What is the gramatical rule for joining two names like that? I have found 13 500 entries on google for sugarcane, but
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
But the Wikipedia entries for each are quite different Are these words largely interchangeable synonyms? In the Wikipedia entry for adage, for example, a proverb is defined as an adage produced from folk wisdom, whereas an aphorism has "not necessarily gained credit through long use, but is distinguished by particular depth or good style"
- The Oxford Comma and its relation to a list with only two entries . . .
The sentence is as follows: I work in disaster management and prevention, and international aid and development 2 Questions: Can a list include just two entries as above? Can the Oxford comma be
- Whats the capitalization rule for tabulated entries? [closed]
Column heads and stubs [entries in the leftmost column of the table] must match one another in style across a series of tables Spelling, capitalization, punctuation, abbreviations, and symbols must likewise be regularized
- technical - Terminating punctuation in table entries - English Language . . .
I always get a little flustered by the question of how to punctuate the end of each of my table entries, where the table is part of a longer document primarily composed of traditional sentences but
- Is Selected 1 of 1 Entries correct pluralization?
Selected 1 of 1 available entries (Wrong by analogy) Using “1 of 1 entries” probably sounds right because it’s very common the “1 of” implies that there is more than one available, and therefore entries might be expected to follow it but just because “everyone does it” doesn’t make it correct
- Had entries or had an entry? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Because the dictionaries have entries for the same thing you can decide whether or not you make entry's plurality agree with the total number of entries (2 entries - one for each dictionary) or the number of distinct entries (1 entry - one for the subject, cum grano salis)
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