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- grammar - Jon and I or Jon and me? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
In the one referring to you, if 'me' sounds correct, use 'Jon and me', if 'I' works, use 'Jon and I' A couple of examples to illustrate: He gave the money to Jon and (I me) Try it using only you: He gave the money to me As you can see, 'me' is the winner because using 'I' here would be horrid Jon and (I me) are going to see a play
- Where did Im Jonesing get its meaning from?
Location-based folk etymologies I am not persuaded by the claim (evidently proposed by the Online Rap Dictionary some 37 years after the earliest instance of jones that Lighter cites) that jones originally alluded to Jones Alley in Manhattan
- etymology - Why does the name John have an h in it? - English . . .
From this, I would tentatively conclude that (1 ) the vernacular pronunciation of the name became a single-syllable "Jon" fairly early on, and (2 ) the John spelling might have originally been a Latin-language abbreviation, but it came to be used as the standard vernacular spelling because it matched the vernacular pronunciation
- Is it acceptable to drop the comma in Thanks, John?
It is acceptable to drop the comma Searching the following sources for "Thanks [noun]" (where possible), or "Thanks John" (where not) reveals that both are in extremely common use:
- At hand vs on hand vs in hand - English Language Usage Stack . . .
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- punctuation - Is the correct format Good morning, John or Good . . .
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- How to use the term carbon copy in business emails?
As per Jon Hanna's second example, you can also use this parenthetically: My manager (copied) will need to provide approval My manager (copied in) will need to provide approval As per MT_Head's comment you may also see "copy on", although to me it sounds more natural to use "copy in on": I've copied my manager on this email as
- Use of a semicolon before and comma after however
In the final example box of Jon Hanna's 2 22 13 post, he writes as a correct sentence "Some sentences are ambiguous however we try hard to avoid this " Would it not be better to reorganize as" "Some sentences are ambiguous however hard we try to avoid this "?
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