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"One from another" or"from one another"? - English Language & Usage ...
According to the corpus, from one another seems to be significantly more idiomatic than one from another: One from another seems to be preferred over from one another by people with a fixation on parsing words in sentences, because the preposition from has a clear object: another separated from (or influencing) one.
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What is a word to describe something that belongs exclusively to or is ...
A custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important. You could use this word in your example (though it may be stretching the use a bit) to imply that having an assistant is an implicit show of power or position.
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grammar - From one to another or From one to the other? - English ...
The phrase"from one cook to another" refers to multiple cooks (at least two) who are not more specifically identified for purposes of the immediate action described. As RegDwigнt's comment notes, the most common circumstance for the phrase"from one cook to another" involves"an unknown number of cooks we don't know." However, the wording can ...
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簡単スッキリ！ 「other」と「another」の違いと使い分け | DMM英会話ブログ
それに対し、another は an + other なので冠詞などはつけることができませんでしたね。. 「さらに・追加の」という意味を持つ another 以外は、単数の「ほかのもの」を表すことも忘れず覚えておきましょう。. other と another を使った英語の慣用表現も日常会話で ...
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"Each other" vs."one another" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The boy and the girl help each other." Use “one another” when referring to three or more things. Note the use of “one another” in this instance: The dog, cat and bird looked at one another. Remember one small exception to the rule, as pointed out by the Associated Press Stylebook. When referring to an indefinite number, either “each ...
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"An other" vs"another" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
15. Here is a general rule of thumb: if you mean"a different [noun]", then it is more appropriate to use"an other"; if you mean"an additional [noun]", then it is more appropriate to use"another". So in your example you should use"But it won't transform it to an other format." Also take a look at Brett Reynolds' answer.
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Difference between"one..., another" and"one..., the other"
'I have two pens, one is red, the other is black.' You cannot say 'another' because that suggests there is more than one. And if there were only two to begin with, there can only be one. But if I started out with three pens, I could say: 'I have three pens, one is red, another is black'.
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What's the difference between"yet another" and"another"?
Yet Another: adj. [From Unix's yacc(1), ‘Yet Another Compiler-Compiler’, a LALR parser generator] Of your own work: A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in ‘Yet Another AI Group’ or ‘Yet Another Simulated Annealing Algorithm’.
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How do you greet multiple recipients in an e-mail?
For me, this approach has quite a few advantages. First of all, it is more personal than simply"Greetings" or"Hi all". Secondly, if one of those people is the main recipient and the other is CC, or if one of them has a higher rank (say, he is the boss of the other), I can reflect that in my address by mentioning him first. Lastly, this ...
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conjunctions -"One another" or"one and other" - English Language ...
The first,"one and other" sounds quite wrong to me. If it's a construction that's in use, it's one I've never seen. If it's a construction that's in use, it's one I've never seen. The second,"one another", is standard.
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