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- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The distinction isn't as great with the British spelling (enamoured) NGram using the British spelling of enamoured, which may be what prompted the OP's question I actually hear more people say "enamored by," which is incorrect I think this is a funny and memorable explanation of the preposition to use with enamored: Enamored By ( or ) Enamored Of: If you’re crazy about ferrets, you’re
- Enamored of with by - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The team, enamored with this new metaphor, spent much of the remaining time brainstorming ways to apply those principles to the project "By" sounds the most natural to me in that context, and "of" sounds stilted
- phrase requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is quot;enamoured quot; an appropriate word to use in my sentences to talk about my passion for something? I am enamoured of cosmology I am enamoured of languages He is enamoured of physics
- single word requests - Whats the term describing someone whos . . .
@bib agreed, this is what I was remembering of the term's etymology as well (and Wikipedia confirmed it) However, nowadays this word is used to mean more than that, it's meant to describe someone who's obsessed with his her own body, mind, etc
- Use of animal as a synonym for non-human animal
Astronomers suddenly took sides, seeing various sides in the logic, and schoolchildren all around the world were heartbroken, having been enamored with the story of the most distant and mysterious planet that was discovered by a young, self-educated researcher, and having that status heartlessly yanked away
- smitten with by - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Smitten, like most perfect participles, can refer to a past event, or to the results of that event By is the agentive marker for passive, so smitten by X refers to some previous smiting that X did to the subject If smitten refers to the present resultant state rather than the past event, you'd use a different -- and arbitrarily chosen -- preposition, in this case with, which is determined by
- Meaning of the phrase opining from the rafters, a movie’s overall . . .
0 Can anyone kindly explain the meaning of phrase "opining from the rafters, a movie’s overall rating" in the following sentence: Very few veteran critics tend to be enamored of the recent decade in cinema Nonetheless, based on movie reviews many could easily come to the conclusion that the last ten years were indeed banner ones
- Meaning of phrase Meet your bogie - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Google does not really show anything re meaning of this phrase: I always ask this question of the measurement advocates: "If you're so enamored with measuring people why don't you tell them you
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