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| location | Virginia | |
| age | 45 | |
| visits | member for | 8 months |
| seen | Oct 8 '12 at 2:19 | |
| stats | profile views | 3 |
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Oct 4 |
awarded | Critic |
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Oct 4 |
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Can “as” ever properly mean “because”? deleted 1 characters in body |
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Oct 4 |
answered | Can “as” ever properly mean “because”? |
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Oct 2 |
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Does use-mention distinction warrant breaking conventions? @tchrist: By the way, I have read your Programming Perl, third edition, cover to cover twice through. Nice bit of writing, that. My paperback copy is dog-eared. (The comma after your book's title is here italicized along with the title itself, incidentally.) |
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Oct 2 |
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Does use-mention distinction warrant breaking conventions? @tchrist: Answer edited as suggested. |
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Oct 2 |
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Does use-mention distinction warrant breaking conventions? Incorporated @tchrist's suggestion. |
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Oct 2 |
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Does use-mention distinction warrant breaking conventions? Fixed misspelling: accommodate. |
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Oct 2 |
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Does use-mention distinction warrant breaking conventions? @tchrist: Refer to Fowler's and Aaron's Little, Brown Handbook, 10th ed., sect. 31g.1. Pearson, New York, 2007. |
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Oct 2 |
answered | Does use-mention distinction warrant breaking conventions? |
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Oct 2 |
awarded | Editor |
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Oct 2 |
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Start a subordinate clause with “thus” Edited further to make clear that the paragraph in question does not accuse Milton. |
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Oct 2 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Oct 2 |
answered | Start a subordinate clause with “thus” |
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Sep 26 |
awarded | Student |
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Sep 11 |
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-er rather than -lier as an adverbial comparative form This is an excellent, thorough, most informative answer, a better answer than my question deserved. The answer merits an acceptance checkmark from me and a +2; except that, by Stackexchange's rules, I haven't got a second checkmark to give. Accept the +1 and my thanks. |
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Sep 8 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Sep 8 |
accepted | -er rather than -lier as an adverbial comparative form |
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Sep 8 |
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-er rather than -lier as an adverbial comparative form If your suggestion's issue interests you, an entirely rewritten paragraph has flowed rather naturally from it. It reads much better now. Moreover, I would like to think that I understand, or begin to understand, the kind of change your suggestion represents. Thank you. |
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Sep 8 |
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-er rather than -lier as an adverbial comparative form I came for advice on adverbs because that is what I had thought that I needed, but it seems that what I really needed was your helpful suggestion to replace my brittle, old sentence! I have copied your rewrite into my draft and am now smoothing it into context. I suspect that the old sentence, which had prompted the question, is a goner. |
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Sep 8 |
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-er rather than -lier as an adverbial comparative form To have asked you to rewrite the sentence for me would have been unreasonable. However, since you yourself have mentioned it: I first drafted that sentence a couple of years ago and have never really liked it. It starts to go wrong from its first word. Without spending much of your time, if a rewritten sentence occurred to you to suggest, I should be glad to read it. (For information, in my manuscript, the sentence leads its subsection. Nothing immediately precedes it.) |
