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  1. Apr 19, 2012 · You may use one-to-one when you can identify a source and a destination. For eg., a one-to-one email is one sent from a single person to another, i.e., no ccs or bccs. In maths, a one-to-one mapping maps one element of a set to a unique element in a target set. One-on-one is the correct adjective in your example

  2. Presque Isle, One hundred one dollars, fifty five cents, $101 55... Edmunds, One hundred one dollars, thirteen cents, 101 13. On the evidence of these (and other early) Google Books search results, it appears that "one hundred and one" was in use by the second half of the 1600s and that "one hundred one" was in use by the second half of the 1700s.

  3. Jun 9, 2020 · The meaning of both "only one" and "one and only one" is the same. However, "one and only one" adds emphasis to the fact that there is only one, and draws attention to it. For example, the student who is the only one who failed, might feel more ashamed if the teacher uses "one and only one", as the teacher might be perceived as purposely drawing attention to that fact, for whatever reason.

  4. Mar 22, 2014 · Now it is possible to think that there are just two directions - e.g. left or right. So using that rationale it would be "one or the other". However if you postulate many directions e.g. north, south, east, west, north-west, south-east etc then it woul be "one or another (an other)" –

  5. Aug 10, 2020 · Would you be so kind to explain the meaning of the phrase "on this one" please. A little story: A man had a lot of tasks in a school, but he didn't do them properly. He made a mess of them. Another man said: "Follow me on this one." In this context does "on this one" mean "Now (from now on) you should do it as I tell you", or does "on this one ...

  6. Jul 1, 2012 · I think "on the one side" is even more rare than the Ngram indicates. Leafing thru the hits, many examples don't fit this context (e.g., "six cubits wide on the one side," or, "the join fields on the one side of a one-to-many relationship," or, "every advantage gained on the one side would be a disadvantage on the other.").

  7. Feb 1, 2015 · It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or ...

  8. Indefinite pronouns like one and somebody: one's, somebody's. The possessive of the pronoun one is spelled one's. There are many types of pronouns. Unfortunately, people explaining the mnemonic for remembering the spelling of its sometimes over-simplify and say something like "it doesn't have an apostrophe because it's a pronoun, like his or her".

  9. Jul 21, 2017 · As @PeterShor points out, in this case "one" is the pronoun, and would never be numeric. Beyond that, as a general rule, spell out numbers 1-9, but for technical writing, it may be appropriate to always use the numeric version when you're referring to a numeral (as opposed to the pronoun example above).

  10. Oct 19, 2012 · Is using the phrase "one another" considered equivalent to the phrase "one and other"? Is one of the two considered right and the other wrong? To give an example: The two computers were situated relatively close to one and other. The two computers were situated relatively close to one another.