I wonder if there is a difference between the words "whole" and "entire". For example, the following sentences: I spent my whole life waiting for you. I spent my entire life wa...
Why should I use the words "entire group of boys" instead of "entire boys". I know the first one is correct but can't explain why other than it sounds right. I need to explain why as part of a paper.
Ok, first of all, "No man is an Island, entire on itself" is not a proverb!. It is a poem by John Donne, follow this link for the full poem. Secondly, what you are asking about is a "Quote", when you take a small part of a speech or text and use it to emphasize a point/fact or convey a message, it is called a quote. In the case of your question John Donne's poem ' No Man is an Island '. What ...
How should you start a letter when addressing an entire family? Dear The Jones Family, or Dear Jones Family, I was discussing this with my wife and I preferred the former while my wife prefers ...
I wanted to supplement user282290's answer by noting some alternative forms that are also in use: specicide. In 2003, the New York Times published the opinion piece "A Bug's Death", by Olivia Judson, which uses the term "specicide" and defines it as "the deliberate extinction of an entire species". (The phrase "deliberate extinction" also works as a less neologistic term for this.) speciescide ...
How do you punctuate quotes when the entire quote is used as a noun phrase, especially as the subject of an independent clause, under conditions where no punctuation would usually be used for a nou...
Where should the period go when using parentheses? For example: In sentence one, I use this example (which has a parenthesis at the end.) Should the period be inside, or outside of the parentheses?
the entire garden field There's nothing else entire could really be modifying here. The collision with little makes it awkward in its normal position (the entire, little garden field), since it's such a different function from the other adjective. One is describing the field itself while the other is qualifying the portion of the field walked over.
