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Bookmark or Share- conjunctions - "One another" or "one and other" - English Language ...Is using the phrase "one another" considered equivalent to the phrase "one and other"? Is one of the two considered right and the other wrong? To give an example: The two computers were situated relatively close to one and other. The two computers were situated relatively close to one another.
- "noone", "no one" or "no-one"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange"no one" is the correct one. noone is the common misspelling of "no one". "Noone" is formed for consistency with "nobody", and also its opposites "anyone" and "everyone", but it is still considered nonstandard because of the doubled vowels creating a temptation to read and pronounce it as "noon" (/nuːn/).
- Difference between "one..., another" and "one..., the other"Now it is possible to think that there are just two directions - e.g. left or right. So using that rationale it would be "one or the other". However if you postulate many directions e.g. north, south, east, west, north-west, south-east etc then it woul be "one or another (an other)" –
- Is the possessive of "one" spelled "ones" or "one's"?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".
- When to use "1" vs. "one" for technical writing?As @PeterShor points out, in this case "one" is the pronoun, and would never be numeric. Beyond that, as a general rule, spell out numbers 1-9, but for technical writing, it may be appropriate to always use the numeric version when you're referring to a numeral (as opposed to the pronoun example above).
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