Tham khảo tài liệu 'knowledge vocabulary10', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | file C Temp livres commonerrors errors For most Americans the natural thing to say is Climb down off of pronounced offa that horse Tex with your hands in the air but many . authorities urge that the of should be omitted as redundant. Where British English reigns you may want to omit the of as superfluous but common usage in the . has rendered off of so standard as to generally pass unnoticed though some American authorities also discourage it in formal writing. However off of1 meaning from in phrases like borrow five dollars off of Clarice is definitely nonstandard. Gotten should be got. In England the old word gotten dropped out of use except in such stock phrases as ill-gotten and gotten up but in the . it is still considered interchangeable with got as the past participle of get. TIL UNTIL Since it looks like an abbreviation for until some people argue that this word should always be spelled til though not all insist on the apostrophe . However till has regularly occurred as a spelling of this word for over 800 years and it s actually older than until. It is perfectly good English. Teenage vs. teenaged Some people object that the word should be teenaged but unlike the still nonstandard ice tea and stain glass teenage is almost universally accepted now. Don t use reference to mean cite. Nouns are often turned into verbs in English and reference in the sense to provide references or citations has become so widespread that it s generally acceptable though some teachers and editors still object. unquote 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
