Word: nouns
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...caliginous when you mean dark, you are off the beaten track.” Complex words in student writing sometimes seem out of place, said Lydia A. Fillingham, a preceptor of the Harvard Expository Writing Program. “One thing people do a lot of is use the noun form instead of a verb. Instead of using ‘spent more,’ they write ‘spending increased,’” she said. Oppenheimer, like his study’s subjects, prefers straightforward writing. “If you want to communicate...
...Today the working text is Sylvia Path’s “The Dreamers.” We’re almost out of the woods (having narrowly missed a fierce spat over adjective-noun order), the opening strains of the second stanza in sight, before we’re sidelined by a single dastardly phrase: “French window.” The professor is convinced that there is no such thing—in Argentina—and that simply to put down the literal translation of the phrase would make about as much sense...
...understand consumers from Tokyo to Wisconsin and mass merchants to Bergdorf Goodman. We're going to make sure that every one of our 16 brands has a voice and a very differentiated model." Their slew of brands includes BCBGirls, BCBG Attitude (men's ready-to-wear), Max & Cleo (dresses), Noun (tops and sweaters), Maxime (pants) and young contemporary labels To the Max, Dorothe Bis and Parallel...
...locks you there. You may want out, but you also want to stay, if only to see how similar Mike Hammer's atavistic codes and instincts are to yours, and how swiftly and deftly Spillane etches this urban underworld. (As novelist Mirian Ann Moore says, "Nobody ever hit a noun against a verb like Mickey Spillane...
Where I live, just outside Washington, Facebook.com is both noun and verb, the unchallenged colossus of adolescent communication that works like the telephone, the back fence, the class bulletin board (and, at times, the locker room), all rolled into one virtual mosh pit. In other towns, MySpace.com plays the same starring role. In both cases, they have legions of parents pulling out their hair...