adjectives - Indispensible: is it correct? - English Language Usage . . . Indispensible is clearly a typo in this case, and it is not an uncommon misspelling of indispensable In my experience, it is rarely frowned upon, and I even thought it was correct until now In a similar vein, defensable is also a common misspelling of defensible
word choice - Indispensable for vs, indispensable to - English . . . Oh, sorry i wrongly typed "indispensable" to "indispensible" The original sentence was " His article was indispensable to the company" But I came to wonder if it was possible to change 'to' to 'for' without changing the meaning, or if the meaning changes, what would be the difference This is kind of a same question with the second question
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Indispensable nutrients (including amino acids) are those without which life is impossible Indispensable nutrients that cannot be internally produced, but must be consumed from some external source, are called essential
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The Queen That Never Was or The Queen Who Never Was? For example, the indispensible Fowler’s Modern English Usage says: ‘That can also replace who (or whom), especially when the reference is non-specific, as in The person that I saw was definitely a woman ’ And examples of this usage can be found in work by Chaucer, Shakespeare and in the King James Version of the Bible
Are adverbs frowned upon in proper English (academic writing)? What Pinker et al don’t mention is of course that (a) hedging is not restricted to adverbs (there are hedging adjectives, nouns, and verbs, too), and (b) hedging is a vital and indispensible part of academic writing Most academic writing would be rejected outright as unacademical speculation if you got rid of all the hedging—and much of
What part of speech does “here” have in “I am here”? In syntactic theory there is always a tendency to invent more non-terminal types for special purposes -- what I call the "angels and pinheads" approach -- which also raises the POS count I'd say English has 20 or so indispensible POS categories –
Is using passive voice bad form? - English Language Usage Stack . . . Well, not all people Make that "Most Americans don't prefer passive sentences " Well, not just Americans "Most fluent English speakers in the year 2013 " This is a good illustration of why the passive voice is indispensible: sometimes the active voice forces you into unnecessary specificity, committing you to a meaning you don't intend