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- One-to-one vs. one-on-one - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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 One-on-one is the correct adjective in your example
- When to use 1 vs. one for technical writing?
As @PeterShor points out, in this case "one" is the pronoun, and would never be numeric Beyond that, as a general rule, spell out numbers 1-9, but for technical writing, it may be appropriate to always use the numeric version when you're referring to a numeral (as opposed to the pronoun example above)
- Is the possessive of one spelled ones or ones?
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"
- How to correctly apply in which, of which, at which, to which . . .
@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 –
- Does but one mean only one or except one? [duplicate]
Normally the NP is quantified (e g, one thirteen a few of them) However, if the phrase is all but NP, then it means 'all except one thirteen a few of them' Make sure you know which idiom you're talking about There are a lot of them, and some have more words than others –
- Use you or one in formal writing? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Using "one" when you want to address a person in general, not specifically the reader This was considered good practice in general Consider this: When the stakes are high one is often tempted to cheat Verses: When the stakes are high you are often tempted to cheat
- Is Jack of all trades, master of none really just a part of a longer . . .
Furthermore if, when one hears the phrase, one often thinks of the words which tend immediately to follow it: 'Master of none', it is worth remembering the saying in fullest version: 'Jack of all trades, Master of none; though oftentimes better than master of one' Bursars truly are practitioners of many parts
- pronunciation - Why is one pronounced as wan, not oh-ne . . .
one and once are pronounced differently from the related words alone, only and atone Stressed vowels often become diphthongs over time (Latin bona → Italian buona and Spanish buena ), and this happened in the late Middle Ages to the words one and once , first recorded ca 1400: the vowel underwent some changes, from ōn → ōōōn → wōn
- grammaticality - Which one is you? vs Which one are you? - English . . .
4 a) That one would be you 4 b) Which one would be you? Short story: One way to find the subject of an interrogative main clause is to convert the example sentence into one that uses a multi-word verb phrase The subject will either be in the front before the verb phrase, or else it will be sandwiched in between the verbs Using the OP's two
- Which is it: 1½ years old or 1½ year old? [duplicate]
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
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