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- grammar - Correspond to vs. Correspond with - English Language Usage . . .
Correspond to is used when two things are analogous or similar all of which correspond to real numbers or agree in amount, position, etc figures and letters on the left in the list below correspond to similar figures and letters in the statement of differences events A and B also correspond to positions A and B on the train
- meaning - Corresponding vs. appropriate - English Language Usage . . .
In the US you rarely hear correspond used to denote a type of communication, and when I do hear it it's often by the news to talk about their "(foreign, technical, political) correspondent" Appropriate, however tends to denote 'rightness' or 'correctness', see MW dictionary: 1: right or suited for some purpose or situation
- Why English pronunciation differs so much from written language . . .
So our current spelling doesn't even correspond to 17th-century pronunciation (the 'b' in debt hasn't been pronounced since Latin, and the 's' in island was never pronounced) So the lesson from this is that to keep the spelling close to the actual pronunciation requires regular spelling reforms, which are instituted in many languages, but are
- punctuation - What is the proper way of using triple dots and spaces . . .
@Carlo_R I dissent Google points indifferently to good and bad resources Ceteris paribus, questions of this sort should be addressed to the manual or style book which governs OP's publication, and the question is Not Constructive
- With who vs. with whom - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- Correct usage of replacing cuss words with symbols
Just out of curiosity, is there a specific way to do this I've noticed sometimes there isn't a specific number of symbols but normally the number of symbols correspond to the number of letters in the cuss word E g : Wow dude, you are such an #%-hole!
- Free of vs. Free from - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
So free from is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and free of (which doesn't correspond neatly to freedom of) is used to indicate the absence of something: this shampoo is free of parabens Therefore: The people were free from the barbaric dictator The mashed potatoes were free of lumps I wish I could get rid of this
- Difference in meaning between did you speak to. . . and have you spoken . . .
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