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19 avr. 2012 · One-to-one is used when you talk about transfer or communications. You may use one-to-one when you can identify a source and a destination. For eg., a one-to-one email is one sent from a single person to another, i.e., no ccs or bccs. In maths, a one-to-one mapping maps one element of a set to a unique element in a target set.
23 août 2013 · You might prefer the former to the latter because the latter comes across as very accusatory. This is really the only circumstance I will use "one" as opposed to "you." Generally, except in very formal writing, "one" comes across as rather pretentious or old fashioned. It puts distance between the reader and writer which might be a good thing ...
@Mr. Hyde One can sometimes shift the preposition in writing or in speech, yes: "the party which he spoke at was" etc.. Bear in mind, though, that in non-literary writing, the preposition would not be shifted. Which without in is not part of this question. The point here is about the prepositioins. –
22 mars 2014 · Yes, one is red, one black, and I haven't yet told you the colour of the third one. It is just that if there is one of something you use the. The house where my aunt lives is in a forest. If there are potentially more than one of something, you can only use the indefinite article a. Would you like a cup of tea?.
1 févr. 2015 · It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or ...
1 juil. 2012 · J.R.: Yes, I didn't want to clog up the answer itself with that level of detail, but when the word "the" is part of the "the one side/hand" juxtaposed with "the other side/hand", most of the instances with "hand" are exactly OP's context, but very few of the (far less common anyway) instances of "side" are actually for that "weighing up of alternatives" sense.
Indefinite pronouns like one and somebody: one's, somebody's. The possessive of the pronoun one is spelled one's. There are many types of pronouns. Unfortunately, people explaining the mnemonic for remembering the spelling of its sometimes over-simplify and say something like "it doesn't have an apostrophe because it's a pronoun, like his or her".
8 avr. 2016 · "Kate's a great racer. One of the fastest." Though she's among a set of fastest racers, you would never say she's one of the "fastests." The same construction applies to "best." There's a sort of intuitive logic to this pattern -- the adjective itself denotes the highest degree of some quality, a singular position, that may then modify a plural ...
28 juil. 2015 · One might say The Russians are a musical people, but that's because the subject is Russians - plural. What if you said A brave people is not cowed by the threats of a tyrant . – WS2
3 janv. 2013 · I updated a cost sheet and I want to specify that it's a newly updated cost sheet. For this situation, which one is correct? cost sheet as on/of 16 May. Before specifying a date, which will come first, on or of?
