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  • Is “my” a definite personal pronoun? In the most dialects of English “my” is a definite personal pronoun so you should take “my friend” whenever you would consider “the friend” and “a friend of mine” or “one of my friends” when you would say a friend.

    Evidence for this is this Ngram (the friend of my friend), which shows that “A friend of mine” is roughly an eighth as common as my friend1″. I believe this is the first known case for any question related to “friend of my friend” in the world. Why don’t people say “the friend of mine” if “my friend” has the same meaning?

    Personal pronoun can be considered as a real noun in English as well. Why is a suit mandatory for an event? (Not a necessary attire) Should I wear my suit? “Unless you only had one suit. If so, why? What are some exceptions for relatives (I think you can say ‘his brother,” ‘his grandmother,” even though he has more than one, but you’d probably say ‘one of his cousins” or ‘one of his cousins’ ). Where there are exceptions to the rule for some body parts (e.g. muscles, gynea, muscles and nails) with particular exceptions also? , it’s “take my hand”, not “take one of my hands”, even though it’s “I’ll give you a hand” and not “I’ll give you the hand”!

    In the Northeast of the U.S., I hear “my friend” quite often as an indefinite personal pronoun. I’ve been sick lately and finally found peace here. What was it like in my new home? This exception is “friend” in physics, and it can be identified as a brother and a daughter. I think

    that here, “friend” can be another exception that falls into the same category as either brother and daughter.

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  • Asked on December 19, 2021 in Word choice.

    Both constructions are commonly used in mathematics. In standard (not mathematical) present-day English, these would be written as…

    we have the fact that B = C. Consider:

    We

    have the fact that John is an idiot.
    *Well, John is gonna get mad at everyone.
    Is John an Idiot?

    Which would they be in, in fact, neither the latter two constructions would be admissible in ordinary English, and I can’t find any evidence in Google books that they ever were admissible (although the middle one sounds marginally better to me, which means that if you had to choose one of these two, I would recommend that one). Since A is true, we learn that B = C.

    Since A is true, we know that B = C. (or any
    other way of expressing this that are also grammatical in
    ordinary English) Notice that I have dropped “the fact” from

    the first part of the sentence.

    I hate John Stewart. He’s an idiot. What’s wrong with what he

    said?
    Is John Slade an idiot?

    I don’t believe the second part of the original sentence is even accepted in mathematical English.

    EDIT: I just realized that maybe you meant “since the fact A is true” to be parsed as “since (the fact A) is true” rather than “since the fact (A is true)”. If that is the case, you can ignore the second part of my answer.

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  • Asked on May 29, 2021 in Phrases.

    Is human nature necessary?

    People of different kinds, and people having different forms, are grammatical, but they mean two different things. It depends on whether you are talking about multiple kinds of people, or one kind of people.

    What should sample sentence be for? This

    brings up the issue of how well our sample represents people of different kinds.

    Lavender and Gold explains that very rich are

    people of different types. How can I treat different kind of people, like u and me?

    Does the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have any rules for it?

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  • Asked on May 29, 2021 in Phrases.

    Is human nature necessary?

    People of different kinds, and people having different forms, are grammatical, but they mean two different things. It depends on whether you are talking about multiple kinds of people, or one kind of people.

    What should sample sentence be for? This

    brings up the issue of how well our sample represents people of different kinds.

    Lavender and Gold explains that very rich are

    people of different types. How can I treat different kind of people, like u and me?

    Does the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have any rules for it?

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  • Asked on May 28, 2021 in Grammar.

    Every man has a

    head, even my own skin, and all of my eyes are upside down.

    If you ask

    yourself, do men all have one head?

    The song sounds like they belong to the same person, you all know, with the same head.

    All things have two handles”. Likewise, all men’s faces are metaphorical. What is the difference between a Google search and a Google search for “everything has two handles? “?

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  • Asked on May 28, 2021 in Grammar.

    Every man has a

    head, even my own skin, and all of my eyes are upside down.

    If you ask

    yourself, do men all have one head?

    The song sounds like they belong to the same person, you all know, with the same head.

    All things have two handles”. Likewise, all men’s faces are metaphorical. What is the difference between a Google search and a Google search for “everything has two handles? “?

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  • Asked on May 28, 2021 in Grammar.

    Every man has a

    head, even my own skin, and all of my eyes are upside down.

    If you ask

    yourself, do men all have one head?

    The song sounds like they belong to the same person, you all know, with the same head.

    All things have two handles”. Likewise, all men’s faces are metaphorical. What is the difference between a Google search and a Google search for “everything has two handles? “?

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  • Asked on May 28, 2021 in Grammar.

    Every man has a

    head, even my own skin, and all of my eyes are upside down.

    If you ask

    yourself, do men all have one head?

    The song sounds like they belong to the same person, you all know, with the same head.

    All things have two handles”. Likewise, all men’s faces are metaphorical. What is the difference between a Google search and a Google search for “everything has two handles? “?

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  • Asked on May 28, 2021 in Grammar.

    Every man has a

    head, even my own skin, and all of my eyes are upside down.

    If you ask

    yourself, do men all have one head?

    The song sounds like they belong to the same person, you all know, with the same head.

    All things have two handles”. Likewise, all men’s faces are metaphorical. What is the difference between a Google search and a Google search for “everything has two handles? “?

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  • Asked on May 27, 2021 in Phrases.

    Is human nature necessary?

    People of different kinds, and people having different forms, are grammatical, but they mean two different things. It depends on whether you are talking about multiple kinds of people, or one kind of people.

    What should sample sentence be for? This

    brings up the issue of how well our sample represents people of different kinds.

    Lavender and Gold explains that very rich are

    people of different types. How can I treat different kind of people, like u and me?

    Does the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have any rules for it?

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