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- Difference between hundred, a hundred, and one hundred?
Regarding one hundred or a hundred etc, the person saying that there is a difference is right - one is used more for precision but a is more common and employed
- One of those people who lt; singular or plural verb? gt;
The sentence about "one of those rare people who" almost has to have a plural verb within the relative clause: He is one of those rare people, and he believes in ancient myths
- word usage - Difference between One to One and One on One - English . . .
one-on-one is used to talk about meetings between two people When there is a discussion we can call it a one-on-one discussion; as an alternative for a face to face confrontation and in interviews (quite often political ones on TV)
- not one of them VS. no one of them. | WordReference Forums
You can say not one of them (meaning not even a single one of them), or none of them, or possibly neither of them (if only two people are involved) "No one of them" is not grammatical
- Is Jack of all trades, master of none really just a part of a longer . . .
As for the suggested longer expression "Jack of all trades, master of none, but better than a master of one," the earliest matches I could find for it are two instances from 2007 From Drum magazine (2007) [combined snippets]: The full phrase is actually " Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one "
- A word or phrase to describe one plus one more than two?
The two parts of one plus one would normally equal two The original question was a looking for a way of describing a situation where one plus one equals more than two The original post omitted the word equals - but from the rest I concluded it should have been there
- Is “a choice between one of two options” grammatically correct?
The prepositional phrase "between one of two options" is grammatically correct because the noun phrase is "one of two options" and not "one" "Between one of two options" means "between one option and a second option", which would not appear grammatically incorrect to you, I assume
- one or more people - WordReference Forums
When usage and logic clash (along the lines of "more than one person has said"): We often hear this phrase, but how can "people" (meaning 'the plural of "person"') take a singular verb? Would you prefer an alternate way of saying this, such as "one person or more"? [This sounds quite awkward to
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