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Bookmark or Share- Use "you" or "one" in formal writing? - English Language & Usage Stack ...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'.
- "One-to-one" vs. "one-on-one" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeYou may use one-to-one when you can identify a source and a destination. For eg., a one-to-one email is one sent from a single person to another, i.e., no ccs or bccs. In maths, a one-to-one mapping maps one element of a set to a unique element in a target set. One-on-one is the correct adjective in your example
- 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).
- How to correctly apply "in which", "of which", "at which", "to which ...@Mr. Hyde One can sometimes shift the preposition in writing or in speech, yes: "the party which he spoke at was" etc.. Bear in mind, though, that in non-literary writing, the preposition would not be shifted. Which without in is not part of this question. The point here is about the prepositioins. –
- 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)" –
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