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Is there a specific term for the short descriptions of a movie or TV episode present in TV guides?
It's called a log line. Log lines are a single sentence that typically include the protagonist, antagonist, inciting incident, and general idea of the story. It also helps if it makes you want to read ...
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Why does 'scent' here use the singular form?
Your logic is fine. But English does not adhere to strict logical consistency—no natural language does. But there is some consistency here, namely that attributes are expressed in the singular in the ...
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"Status" vs. "state"
state is intrinsic, status extrinsic.
The state of something is its inherent condition, whereas its status is relative to an external framework of some kind.
A book in a library's rare book collection ...
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"Status" vs. "state"
Since we had a long discussion with a group oft software people, I add another example that reflects our results. The object of this example is a "package" that we used to understand the ...
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"On the one/other hand" vs. "on the one/other side"
I believe that the use of "on the side" refers to placement rather than views. For example, I put the meat on the side and prepared the gravy.
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Can any noun type be used as a direct object?
According to scribbr*, nouns can be classified into a number of different types. Most can be used as a direct object. This answer doesn't consider pronouns, because the question doesn't ask about ...
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Is there anything wrong with the sentence "Donuts are not a part of healthy eating"?
Eating is an action. Doughnuts are not actions. So the sentence is a bit weird.
I suggest instead:
"Doughnuts are not part of a healthy diet"; or
"Doughnuts are not associated with ...
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Is there anything wrong with the sentence "Donuts are not a part of healthy eating"?
My main quibble is with the term eating, in medical and self-help literature, diet is preferable.
Donuts (doughnuts) are not part of a healthy diet
Google Books: “part of a healthy diet”
Including ...
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Is there anything wrong with the sentence "Donuts are not a part of healthy eating"?
The use of the article does make a difference. In this sentence, the article does not sound very idiomatic. One gets the idea that healthy eating is made up of parts, which is not a usual point of ...
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Is there anything wrong with the sentence "Donuts are not a part of healthy eating"?
Both versions (with "part" and with "a part") are fine. As Cambridge notes (with the "[U]" and "[C]" annotations), part can be used as either a count noun or a ...
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Generic term for songs, movies, TV episodes, etc
The most generic word creative people use is piece. You might consider number.
Oxford Advanced Learner's Ditionary piece > [countable] a single item of writing, art, music, etc. that somebody has ...
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Which is the more idiomatic: equivalence/equivalencies or equivalency/equivalences?
As MW notes, "equivalence" (plural "equivalences") and "equivalency" (plural "equivalencies") are synonyms in this context. According to Ngram, "...
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