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Bookmark or Share- Word for someone who pays attention to detailsNot so. Reg Dwight comments: "Searching a reverse dictionary for "someone who is very concerned about the fine details" returns punctilious, fastidious, meticulous, and many more."
- "Focus on" or "be focused on": what're the nuances?The lens focuses rays of light. Nothing else focuses the mind like a deadline. Sentences like these use an ordinary transitive active-voice construction. The subject represents a semantic actor or agent. The direct object represents a semantic patient. These semantic roles still exist in passive-voice constructions of this verb.
- Focus on or focus in? - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeShe focusses on/in developing the four language skills. Which preposition is the correct one to use? Do was focus on something, or focus in something?
- "Focussed" or "focused"? Rules for doubling the last consonant when ...Focuses - it would be pronounced foc-uses the ‘u’ sounding like ‘use’. Focusses - it would be pronounced ‘focusses’ like ‘plusses’. However, most people do not seem to know the reason behind double consonants in English - and so some are probably making up their own spellings.
- Is there a word or term to describe when someone focuses on a specific ...I am curious if "anecdotal" would be pertinent. In scientific research we refer to "anecdotal evidence" to indicate that some research work focuses on specific examples rather than showing that an hypothesis is generally true.
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