Basic English Grammar - TOO MUCH, TOO MANY, A LOT OF. How Many Spaces After a Period? Ending the Debate : The World's Greatest Book. Few subjects arouse more passion among writers and designers than the debate over how many spaces should follow a period. If you adhere to a style manual, you’ll be hard-pressed to find one that doesn’t specify a single-space. Chicago and MLA specify one—debate ended—but the popular arguments in support of the single-space after a period (arguments I must confess to having perpetuated in previous writings) turn out to be mostly apocryphal. The single-space after a period is a simple style evolution—and it’s a fairly recent one. This leaves traditionalist typesetters like myself in something of a quandary; staunch advocates for the single-space must question whether their “classic” design work is authentic. This article surveys book typography from the 1700s to the present.
One Space After a Period: The Mythology The typewriter came of age during the late 19th century. The argument for the single-space sounds compelling. Figure 1 figure 2 Figure 3. The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy. A: "All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent, so it can't be a mammal. " B: "This does not logically follow. By your own argument, the set of rodents is a subset of the set of mammals; and therefore, a weasel can be outside the set of rodents and still be in the set of mammals. " Hopefully it should be clear that neither A's argument nor B's argument is ad hominem. Perhaps there are some people who think that any disagreement is an ad hominem argument, but these people shouldn't be allowed out of fairyland.
A: "All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent, so it can't be a mammal. " B's argument is less comprehensive, but still not ad hominem. A: "All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent, so it can't be a mammal. " B's argument is still not ad hominem. A: "All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent, so it can't be a mammal. " B's argument is still not ad hominem. A: "All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent, so it can't be a mammal. " Grammar and Punctuation | The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation.
English Grammar Lesson: Much and many + countable and uncountable nouns.