Timeline for Is there a difference between the usage of "through" and "by" in the following context?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:11 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 7, 2016 at 0:43 | answer | added | user37424 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 10, 2013 at 3:52 | history | edited | Mistu4u | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 10, 2013 at 0:22 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/388097267326275584 | ||
| Oct 9, 2013 at 22:33 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @ mr.gaussian: I think the idea behind advice to "vary the way you say things" is more relevant to budding creative writers. It really stands out when someone uses the same "creative/unusual" form even twice in the same book. But in most contexts (certainly when the words used are commonplace, and the purpose is to communicate rather than entertain), variety for the sake of it is either pointless, or an unwelcome distraction. | |
| Oct 9, 2013 at 22:25 | vote | accept | mr.gaussian | ||
| Oct 9, 2013 at 22:15 | answer | added | StoneyB on hiatus | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 9, 2013 at 22:13 | comment | added | mr.gaussian | ok, thank you for your answer, it sounds plausible and concurs with my personal opinion. But, you know, as in school back then, one was teached to not use the same word to often, because it is a bad style. And I think, this was a stupid suggestions - with exceptions, but not the other way around- since nowadays a student often spends more time in thinking how to substitute words in order to sound professionel than to proceed the thoughts and argumentation to actually be professional. sad story...and maybe contradicts in some degree this sites, with all the literates, but, perhaps not. =) | |
| Oct 9, 2013 at 21:52 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | ... you can highlight text by putting one (italic) or two (bold) or three (bold italic) asterisks before and after the relevant text (no spaces between the asterisks and the target text). | |
| Oct 9, 2013 at 21:50 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I see no merit is randomly switching between prepositions for the sake of "diversity". Bear in mind that "consistency" is also a valued quality in matters such as this. My advice would be to always use by unless you've a good reason for wanting to call attention to the fact that the way you're trying to define, justify, explain something is a relatively long and tortuous process. Even then, you should be careful - by is far more common, so whenever you use a different preposition, you risk people thinking "I wonder why he phrased it like that?" | |
| Oct 9, 2013 at 21:14 | history | asked | mr.gaussian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |