2017年7月21日 · I currently am in the middle of a discussion about the proper use for when to use the numeral "1" versus "one". There are two sides to this argument: 1) In technical writing, numerals should always be used. The company hired 4 interns, but the fifth 1 left. Patch management is 1 of the best ways... The client should create a 1-way trust. 2 ...

2012年4月19日 · Either may be correct, so the tie-breaker is local usage and avoidance of confusion. In my circle, one-to-one connotes a mathematical relationship while one-on-one is used more often in athletic contests. So a meeting might be either. But if you talk about a meeting as one-to-one, the listener may think you are referring to the hour.

2015年2月1日 · 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" …

2019年2月19日 · As pointed out in comments, the options using colons are normally read as a ratio using the word "to" compare the numbers (i.e. one to one, one to two etc.). This is the most common usage. Following from your wording, perhaps you are looking for such a comparison in a competitive sense (like a one on one debate for example).

one and once are pronounced differently from the related words alone, only and atone. Stressed vowels often become diphthongs over time (Latin bona → Italian buona and Spanish buena ), and this happened in the late Middle Ages to the words one and once , first recorded ca 1400: the vowel underwent some changes, from ōn → ōōōn → wōn ...

2019年1月16日 · In “One member less” the phrase “one member” is a quantifier for “less” specifying the degree of less-ness. “One member fewer” is similar. A well-known rule prefers “fewer” since “member” is countable. Some prefer usage to rules. “One less member” uses “one less” to quantify “member”. Usage accepts this.

It is correct to have the hyphen. I am not quite sure why the people that you see write "one half" do not write "one-half" but they should! Searching for "one half" at dictionary.reference.com does not return any results, but searching for "one-half" does. One-half dictionary.reference.com. This is the same for "two-thirds".

However, when one uses the word "one", it is as if one is speaking in general terms, not refering to any specified individual. It isn't a hard rule that every use of 'you' is writing in the second-person, but rather more a guideline to help a writer avoid overuse of the word 'you'.

2010年11月26日 · which appeared in one of the answers posted earlier. That sentence clearly does not specify anything as to whether I want to live to the south or to the west, or to the northwest, etc. of the office. So far as the information provided in that sentence goes, the possible locations for my home form the circle that has the radius of five miles and ...

2017年11月20日 · In this case, you could use 1 yr., 2 yr. and the abbreviation would always be correct. As reported from the Oxford Dictionary of English , it's the same in British English, except the abbreviation is written without a period at the end (e.g. yr instead of yr. ).