“On one hand” vs “on the one hand.”What's the meaning of idiom 'one less thing'?Does the expression...
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“On one hand” vs “on the one hand.”
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I'm confused because I've seen both mentioned in dictionaries.
Example sentence (context: writing a story):
On (the) one hand, I want to wrap up everything perfectly. On the other hand, I want to leave some ambiguity to the reader.
What's the correct/conventional choice? Maybe this is an American/British English issue?
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I'm confused because I've seen both mentioned in dictionaries.
Example sentence (context: writing a story):
On (the) one hand, I want to wrap up everything perfectly. On the other hand, I want to leave some ambiguity to the reader.
What's the correct/conventional choice? Maybe this is an American/British English issue?
idioms
asked 2 hours ago
alexchencoalexchenco
2,43993365
The sentance is correct I'm not sure what are you asking for here.
– Ced
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I'm confused because I've seen both mentioned in dictionaries.
Example sentence (context: writing a story):
On (the) one hand, I want to wrap up everything perfectly. On the other hand, I want to leave some ambiguity to the reader.
What's the correct/conventional choice? Maybe this is an American/British English issue?
idioms
asked 2 hours ago
alexchencoalexchenco
2,43993365
I'm confused because I've seen both mentioned in dictionaries.
Example sentence (context: writing a story):
On (the) one hand, I want to wrap up everything perfectly. On the other hand, I want to leave some ambiguity to the reader.
What's the correct/conventional choice? Maybe this is an American/British English issue?
idioms
idioms
asked 2 hours ago
alexchencoalexchenco
2,43993365
asked 2 hours ago
alexchencoalexchenco
2,43993365
asked 2 hours ago
alexchencoalexchenco
2,43993365
asked 2 hours ago
alexchencoalexchenco
2,43993365
asked 2 hours ago
alexchencoalexchenco
2,43993365
2,43993365
The sentance is correct I'm not sure what are you asking for here.
– Ced
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The sentance is correct I'm not sure what are you asking for here.
– Ced
2 hours ago
The sentance is correct I'm not sure what are you asking for here.
– Ced
2 hours ago
The sentance is correct I'm not sure what are you asking for here.
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Either is fine.
I'm not aware of any regional differences in usage.
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In most contexts, when contrasting "one" with "the other", the article is not used before "one".
I would class On the one hand and on the one side as idioms.
In the NoW Corpus "On the one hand" has 28822 hits, and "On the one side" 1657, against 2504 examples of "On the one [any other noun]" - (349 of these are "on the one show", and nearly all of these are "On The One Show", so they don't count).
"On one hand", without "the" has 18297 hits - only about 2/3 as many.
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Either is fine.
I'm not aware of any regional differences in usage.
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Either is fine.
I'm not aware of any regional differences in usage.
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Either is fine.
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Either is fine.
I'm not aware of any regional differences in usage.
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In most contexts, when contrasting "one" with "the other", the article is not used before "one".
I would class On the one hand and on the one side as idioms.
In the NoW Corpus "On the one hand" has 28822 hits, and "On the one side" 1657, against 2504 examples of "On the one [any other noun]" - (349 of these are "on the one show", and nearly all of these are "On The One Show", so they don't count).
"On one hand", without "the" has 18297 hits - only about 2/3 as many.
answered 1 hour ago
Colin FineColin Fine
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In most contexts, when contrasting "one" with "the other", the article is not used before "one".
I would class On the one hand and on the one side as idioms.
In the NoW Corpus "On the one hand" has 28822 hits, and "On the one side" 1657, against 2504 examples of "On the one [any other noun]" - (349 of these are "on the one show", and nearly all of these are "On The One Show", so they don't count).
"On one hand", without "the" has 18297 hits - only about 2/3 as many.
answered 1 hour ago
Colin FineColin Fine
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In most contexts, when contrasting "one" with "the other", the article is not used before "one".
I would class On the one hand and on the one side as idioms.
In the NoW Corpus "On the one hand" has 28822 hits, and "On the one side" 1657, against 2504 examples of "On the one [any other noun]" - (349 of these are "on the one show", and nearly all of these are "On The One Show", so they don't count).
"On one hand", without "the" has 18297 hits - only about 2/3 as many.
answered 1 hour ago
Colin FineColin Fine
30.4k24258
In most contexts, when contrasting "one" with "the other", the article is not used before "one".
I would class On the one hand and on the one side as idioms.
In the NoW Corpus "On the one hand" has 28822 hits, and "On the one side" 1657, against 2504 examples of "On the one [any other noun]" - (349 of these are "on the one show", and nearly all of these are "On The One Show", so they don't count).
"On one hand", without "the" has 18297 hits - only about 2/3 as many.
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The sentance is correct I'm not sure what are you asking for here.
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