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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.