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19. Apr. 2012 · 31. 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.
1. Feb. 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. Juli 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.
18. Okt. 2012 · Both prepositions can be used to specify location, as well as others. "I am in China. I am at the Great Wall. Tomorrow I will be on the island." I'm not aware of any one simple rule that will always lead you to the "correct" preposition (although Gulliver's guideline below is a good generality), and sometimes they can be used interchangeably. –
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".
20. Nov. 2017 · I need to put one of the above on one of my app's buttons. Bonus question - does the same rule hold in plural? That is if I write "1 yr.", do I write "15 yrs." as well?
22. Feb. 2011 · 58. I think they can be used interchangeably, there is a lot of overlap between the two, but I would usually use. " How about " when making a suggestion that I feel is best. I would use " What about " when I am less set on the idea and more willing to listen to other suggestions. "What about" can also express an objection, whereas "how about ...
4. Okt. 2011 · What is a commonly accepted abbreviation with regard to stock quantity of (countable) products? As in: "200 units" of sth, just shorter.
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?.
I would use "with" in such a sentence. "By" only seems reasonable in passive, although "with" sounds like it would there work too: That component was replaced by this one. That component was replaced with this one. In my native language, the equivalent of "replace by" can only be used in passive, and even then it's a bit weird unless a person ...
