tailieunhanh - Different vocabulary4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'different vocabulary4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Non-Errors Feeling bad I feel bad is standard English as in This t-shirt smells bad not badly . I feel badly is an incorrect hyper-correction by people who think they know better than the masses. People who are happy can correctly say they feel good but if they say they feel well we know they mean to say they re healthy. Unquote vs. endquote Some people get upset at the common pattern by which speakers frame a quotation by saying quote . . . unquote insisting that the latter word should logically be endquote but illogical as it may be unquote has been used in this way for about a century and endquote is nonstandard. Persuade vs. convince Some people like to distinguish between these two words by insisting that you persuade people until you have convinced them but persuade as a synonym for convince goes back at least to the 16th century. It can mean both to attempt to convince and to succeed. It is no longer common to say things like I am persuaded that you are an illiterate fool but even this usage is not in itself wrong. Preventive is the adjective preventative the noun. I must say I like the sound of this distinction but in fact the two are interchangeable as both nouns and adjective though many prefer preventive as being shorter and simpler. Preventative used as an adjective dates back to the 17th century as does preventive as a noun. People should say a book is titled such-and-such rather than entitled. No less a writer than Chaucer is cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as having used entitled in this sense the very first meaning of the word listed by the OED. It may be a touch pretentious but it s not wrong. People are healthy vegetables are healthful. Logic and tradition are on the side of those who make this distinction but I m afraid phrases like part of a healthy breakfast have become so widespread that they are rarely perceived as erroneous except by the hyper-correct. On a related though slightly different subject it is interesting to note that in .