Month: January 2012

January 30, 2012

Comprised of Fail

A few days ago on Twitter, John McIntyre wrote, “A reporter has used ‘comprises’ correctly. I feel giddy.” And a couple of weeks ago, Nancy Friedman tweeted, “Just read ‘is comprised of’ in a university’s annual report. I give up.” I’ve heard editors confess that they can never remember how to use comprise correctly and […]

Usage, Words 13 Replies to “Comprised of Fail”

January 11, 2012

More on That

As I said in my last post, I don’t think the distribution of that and which is adequately explained by the restrictive/nonrestrictive distinction. It’s true that nearly all thats are restrictive (with a few rare exceptions), but it’s not true that all restrictive relative pronouns are thats and that all whiches are nonrestrictive, even when […]

Descriptivism, Grammar, Prescriptivism, Usage, Words 13 Replies to “More on That”

Arrant Pedantry

Month: January 2012

Comprised of Fail

Like this:

More on That

Like this:

Month: January 2012

Comprised of Fail

Share this:

Like this:

More on That

Share this:

Like this:

You are here: Page 1