“Allow for Permit. ‘I allow you to go.’ Precision is better attained by saying permit, for allow has other meanings.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.
“Allow for Permit. ‘I allow you to go.’ Precision is better attained by saying permit, for allow has other meanings.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.