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Hello CJ and Mr P She me the job. You show indeed nice evidences against the hypothesis! But among them 'offer' was nearly 'pure' English. Its use (in the form of 'offrian') dates back to as far as 825. On the other hand 'guarantee' was imported as a noun and its use as a verb started not long...

'Whom' is a relative or interrogative pronoun, Nitharsan, the objective form of 'who'. Use 'whom' as an object of a preposition: 'With whom are you attending the concert?' 'May I ask to whom I am speaking?' 'A general is the military officer under whom all other ranks serve.' Or, use whom as...

Hello Eladio The American Heritage Book of English Usage says about the usage of either for more than two as follows; A traditional rule holds that either should be used only to refer to one of two items and that any is required when more than two items are involved: Any (not either) of the...

Hello MrP History of English Gerunds (quoted from OED) The most notable development of the verbal nouns in form of -ing is its use as a gerund, i.e. a substantive with certain verbal functions, particularly those of being qualified by an adverb instead of an adjective, and of governing an...

I think we need an example sentence, Guest. I cannot imagine one in which we refer to 'we/our/us' in the singular. Are you thinking of the 'royal we' or the 'editorial we', as in 'We are not amused' or 'The candidate's remarks are somewhat puzzling to us'? Here the grammatical person remains...

Data, It's an interesting question. I saw two usage notes. From GuruNet.com... Let's go through them. USAGE NOTE The word data is the plural of Latin datum, “something given,” but it is not always treated as a plural noun in English. The plural usage is still common, as this headline from...

Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the words 1 Than 2 that 1 Than is normally used to...