Write It Right: Consent for Assent

“Consent for Assent. ‘He consented to that opinion.’ To consent is to agree to a proposal; to assent is to agree to a proposition”.

Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.

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