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- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
These two words are often used interchangeably and the greatest difference I can find between the two is "choose" for choosing multiple items from a set, and "select" for selecting a single item fr
- Is there a difference between select and selected?
selected followed by a noun-phrase merely suggests a subset that may be chosen (at an unspecified time, by unspecified selectors); even at a future date by a future selector Discount is offered on 'select items'
- The difference between “elect and select [closed]
-1 There are many cases in politics where people are selected for a job; e g those appointed directly by a president of prime minister are selected - not elected And there are many non-political positions, e g those running a small charity, who my be elected by the members –
- Unselect or Deselect? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
At the online home of the computer magazine where I work, authors use deselect and unselect to mean the same thing—"to remove from selected status"—though deselect is about five times as common (200 unique matches in a Google search for deselect versus 42 unique matches for unselect)
- word choice - Selected among, out of, from, or from between? - English . . .
I want to say that my paper was selected from a bunch of others, to emphasize that my paper was impressive How do I say that in a correct way and without using too many words? What I have so far: I was interviewed to discuss the findings of my paper, which was selected out of all among from all the other reports
- is vs was vs has been - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"Is selected" describes the state he is in "Selected" can be an adjective, so that is grammatical but it's not very idiomatic "He is short-listed for the job" would be fine, though "Was selected" for a job is a completed action, which again is grammatical, but seems to invite the idea that something has happened since
- logic - Is there a difference between being selected and being pre . . .
Isn't everything selected also pre-selected by definition? Yes Where the phrase involves the word 'selected', the event has happened in the past However, in this instance it is the act of selecting something which has, for whatever reason, previously been through a process of selection: this previous occasion causes the "pre" to be included
- Entry(s) or Entrie(s)? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
“0 of 1 entry selected“ or “0 of 1 entries selected”? Unlike before, the former is correct There is only one entry and “entry” must agree with the number in the prepositional phrase (Note that if you expanded the sentence with a state-of-being verb, it would still be pluralized to agree with zero: “0 of 1 entry are selected ”)
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