terminology - What is the exact technical word to describe the . . . A cognate accusative object is a figure of speech in which the verb and object are etymologically related: He slept a troubled sleep Dance a dance Die a peaceful death So there shouldn't be any problem writing: verb x and its cognate noun Since you're dealing with a language based on consonantal roots, “noun [derived] from the same root” would also work The problem with derivation
grammaticality - Whether or not vs. whether - English Language . . . As Henry Higgins observed in Pygmallion, the best grammarians are often those who learned English in school as immigrants My parents, who were first-generation Americans in the early 20th century, learned English grammar in NYC public schools meticulously They insisted "whether or not" is proper usage, period Over time, language evolves or erodes and the rules change, which really means
Free of vs. Free from - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I checked Garner's Modern American Usage; although BG doesn't address free of vs free from, he writes that the distinction between freedom of and freedom from is that the former indicates the "possession of a right" (freedom of speech) and the latter "protection from a wrong" (freedom from oppression) So free from is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and free of (which
british english - Is it Myself and _____, _____ and myself, or . . . Yes, but Lucy isn’t intensified by myself This isn’t like splitting an infinitive or ending a sentence with a preposition People do speak this way, but people make grammatical mistakes and sound less educated because of them This is akin to saying “Me and Lucy ” People speak that way, but it’s still generally accepted as wrong
Which is correct: Filename, File Name or FileName? I like the look of filename, however, when you end up talking about other attributes of that file, which happens in programming a lot, for example, it is often much better to use file name instead This way you can do file name, file size, file format, etc without losing the symmetry, as you would with filename, file size, file format, etc
Man is to womanizer as woman is to what? What's the feminine version of womanizer? Your title and question are a bit contradictory Reading the title, I inferred that the question was a man womanizes a female so what do you call a female that womanizes a male However, the question implies what is a woman that womanizes; I wasn't aware that womanizing was gender specific As opposed to (what the title led me to believe the question
A word for: something good that came out of something bad I need a single -word to describe something good that (unexpectedly) resulted from something bad This good thing could not have occurred without the bad event happening first, as a precursor Example sentence: "I got in a horrible car accident and broke my leg, but falling in love with my nurse at the hospital was the ____," (something like that)
Why does the contraction shes mean she is or she has? EDIT: I asked this question a while ago and most people’s answers or comments tend to be that there is no rule regarding this usage of the contraction “she’s” or contractions at all, but doing some digging (by accident) I cane upon this answer regarding clitics: The clitic 's meaning "is" can only be used to substitute for a "weak form" is (pronounced əz ) The is in in "Where is it