Some word usages

Sun Dauthter Press Style BookCliché is a noun, not an adjective. Originally it meant a phrase so often used that it was set up as a permanent metal type-block called a cliché. Something can be clichéd but it cannot be cliché. It can, of course, be a cliché.


Critique is a noun, not a verb. You cannot “critique” something, though you can make a critique of it.


Different: Things differ from things. They do not differ to them or than them. The only correct usage is “different from”.


Nuance is purely a noun. Things can have nuances but cannot be “nuanced”.

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Published on November 09, 2014 15:32
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