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A quote within a quote within a quote
- March 27, 2018, 12:20am
See:
https://data.grammarbook.com/blog/quotation-marks/quoting-a-question-within-a-question/
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/92163/how-to-punctuate-a-quote-within-a-quote
The trick at the end is to leave a space after the single quotation mark, separating it from the double.
Writing out percentages correctly
- March 4, 2018, 5:08am
Four and seventy-three thousandths per cent ??? (4.073%)
Neither is or neither are
- February 21, 2018, 3:18am
On google books "neither are to blame" shows up just nineteen times, whereas "neither is to blame" has over five thousand results.
Neither is or neither are
- February 19, 2018, 9:54am
" neither were significant predictors of the outcome measures"
"they were not working mischief, neither were they doing any great good; "
"neither were most of their members prepared to take part as citizens."
"Things are either what they appear to be: or they neither are, nor appear to be"
"And if the fountains are not gods, neither are the rivers,"
"Neither are we truly portraying what Christ's disciple means. "
Both are possible, depending on the context:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22neither%20were%22&tbm=bks&lr=lang_en
On Tomorrow
- January 18, 2018, 9:10am
KING HENRY
We are in God’s hand, brother, not in theirs.
March to the bridge. It now draws toward night.
Beyond the river we’ll encamp ourselves,
And on tomorrow bid them march away.
Henry V Act 3, Scene 6, Page 7
So Shakespeare used "poor grammar and .... stupid."
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/henryv/page_132.html
http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/random-thoughts-about-on-tomorrow.html
It is perfectly normal to say "until tomorrow", "for tomorrow", "by tomorrow", "after tomorrow", so "on tomorrow" is not that much of a stretch.
eg, e.g., or eg.
- January 13, 2018, 5:48pm
E.g. or e.g. is at least twelve times more common in the book corpus used by Google.
"Eg" or "EG" is sometimes an abbreviation for "electrogram", or "elliptical galaxy". For some reason, a few German texts are included in the Google books results, and these use "EG" to mean "Eingriff" and so forth. I have only sighted one valid example of "eg" being used to mean "for example" in this corpus.
From all this I would conclude that "e.g." is the norm.
Fora vs Forums
- December 19, 2017, 5:12pm
@Matthe Ware
It sounds like a school test! To me either would be "correct"; in fact 'extensive assortment of diamonds' comes up about a dozen times as a phrase on google, but 'expensive...' does not, if that is a good criterion.
gifting vs. giving a gift
- December 14, 2017, 11:08pm
gifting vs. giving a gift
- December 14, 2017, 11:04pm
Questions
| Five eggs is too many | July 1, 2013 |
| “The plants were withered” Adjective or passive? | August 27, 2013 |
| Which sound “normal” to you? | March 31, 2014 |
| “it’s the put-er-on-er-er” | April 7, 2014 |
“hate with passion”
"Hate with a passion" is more common:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hate+with+a+passion%2Chate+with+passion%2Chate+passionately%2Cpassionately+hate&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chate%20with%20a%20passion%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chate%20with%20passion%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Chate%20passionately%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cpassionately%20hate%3B%2Cc0