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formality - Usage of though in formal writing - English Language . . . @citizen: I don't think it's really a matter of avoiding though as such The thing is you're using it to ask a chatty informal rhetorical question - which is all very well if you're a lecturer trying to engage your audience (in speech), but it's not exactly the done thing in "formal writing"
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The newspaper asserts that the complaints—variously "diabolical lies" and "atrocious lies"—were politically motivated and utterly false So the Pulaski Citizen 's editorial outlook is clearly strongly anti-Reconstruction (as was the Klan's, when it emerged as a powerful political force in the U S South)
Difference between voters, electorates and constituents I'm reading an English text about politics, and in one paragraph I found "voters," "electorates" and "constituents " Now I would like to know if they are absolutely the same, or if they have slightly
grammaticality - Behave as if it was or it were - English Language . . . In [i] we could have as if he had been a Commonwealth citizen, with the perfect marking backshift (or past time) and the preterite marking modal remoteness; it is, however, much more usual in such contexts to have an irrealis or simple preterite after as if though than a preterite perfect
phrases - What is a more politically correct way to call something a . . . 12 I can't use the phrase "second-class citizen" either This is for a professional blog post, so I'd rather stay away from "red-headed step-child" I can't use "second-class citizen" because I'm talking about a topic with very few similar posts and one related post uses that same term
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Sure, American can refer to a citizen of the United States, but we could also talk about the Americas, or the American continent (This is not unlike how man can refer to the male gender, or to humankind)
“A government of the people, by the people, for the people” Note: the source of this phrase is contested, being erroneously attributed to Cleon and Wycliffe, as well as many genuine variants preceding Lincoln (sometimes seen as alternatives rather than simultaneous) Such figures as John Adams, Daniel Webster, and Unitarian thinker Theodore Parker came close, but Lincoln seems to have been first with the precise wording See Of the People, by the
acronyms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "British citizen" is the statutory name of citizenship of the UK, so it's not so much a choice of the government (in the sense of the particular set of ministers in place at any given time) as of parliament
meaning - What does a man of leisure do exactly? What is the . . . A man of leisure is a man who has a source of income that does not require him to do any work Running Mr Dorrit's boarding school presumably did not require much of his time Perhaps he employed a headmaster and would only be present a few times each year British National Corpus The British National Corpus finds this use of the phrase in The Economist 1991: "Mr Hoi returned home in August
What would a Down Under citizen be called? [closed] Today is the 26th of January, it is Australia Day My question is about its nickname Down Under and derivatives Q If you had to, what would you call the citizen of a country called “Down Under