“All of. ‘He gave me all of his property.’ The words are contradictory: an entire thing cannot be of itself. Omit the preposition.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
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