- Cause vs Causes - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A student wrote the following sentence in an essay: Things such as software and workbooks are included in the textbook packages, which causes a significant increase in price My question is reg
- Is there a term or word for solving a problem that one created oneself . . .
One word that comes to mind is undo, which carries the meaning of rolling back to a point before an action was carried out To cover the whole process, though, you would still need to use another word like fault-correction There is also the more general term, process, which admittedly does not specifically indicate that there was a problem However, your general situation is covered by this
- Is there a word to describe a person who likes chaos?
Spontaneous is another with a slightly less evil connotation Though that's more of a personality trait than a behavioral trait, which is to say that I wouldn't necessarily be prepared to say that a spontaneous person would want to cause chaotic situations
- Phrase to describe a fix that doesnt address the underlying issue . . .
Will a phrase work, or are you after a single term? "Fixing the symptoms but not the root cause" seems to match perfectly what you're describing
- Word for attributing multiple diseases to the same cause?
What is the medical term for attributing multiple diseases to the same cause? I assume it is Greek, so it would pan-etiology or pan-onosis or something like that
- capitalization - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
For example, in a government office, they issue a document specifically named "Temporary Operator's Permit," and they capitalize it on their social media pages in sentences However, other document names, such as "show cause order" and "temporary restraining order," aren't usually capitalized in literature and news What is the general rule for
- Difference in meaning between create make have impact
Technically "create an impact" is not wrong, as "create" could be a synonym for "make" As you pointed out, the common phrases are have an impact or make an impact, so there is a little poetic license going into the substitution To my ears, create an impact sounds a bit awkward, but if in the context of informal text or marketing with an agenda to elicit an emotional response, then a
- Cause for vs cause of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Check "understand the cause of for" in Google Books, and you'll find a few dozen "for", against hundreds of thousands of of's You can bank that particular idiomatic usage (bank = add it to your acquisitions), and probably bank on the method to resolve questions about other usages (bank on = rely upon)
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