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Bookmark or Share- "One-to-one" vs. "one-on-one" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange31. One-to-one is used when you talk about transfer or communications. You 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.
- Which is correct vs which one is correct? [duplicate]answered Aug 25, 2020 at 21:53. SAJEETH AHAMED. 11 1. Nice answer. But consider this: the is in X is is only correct if X is singular. So the one can be omitted - but you can always say which one to emphasize if the listener/reader might not be paying attention or you otherwise want to be really clear. – LawrenceC.
- grammaticality - "Which one is you?" vs "Which one are you?" - English ...4.a) That one would be you. 4.b) Which one would be you?. Short story: One way to find the subject of an interrogative main clause is to convert the example sentence into one that uses a multi-word verb phrase. The subject will either be in the front before the verb phrase, or else it will be sandwiched in between the verbs. Using the OP's two ...
- Which is it: "1½ years old" or "1½ year old"? [duplicate]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" (omitting the 'today'), or ...
- Use "you" or "one" in formal writing? - English Language & Usage Stack ...8. It's to avoid writing in the second person. When you refer to someone with the phrase 'you', you act as if you are speaking to them. 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 ...
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