Showing posts with label comprise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comprise. Show all posts

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Unnecessary prepositions


Comprise (implies be made up of)

Incorrect Usage: The school library comprises of several knowledgeable and entertaining books.
                                           
          Correct Usage: The school library comprises several knowledgeable and entertaining books.

Note: We can also say: The school library is comprised of several knowledgeable and entertaining books.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Compose

Compose = To make up the constituent parts of; constitute or form; To make or create by putting together parts or elements; To create or produce; To arrange aesthetically or artistically; assembled or made out of something.

Synonyms: put together, make up, constitute, comprise, make, build, form, fashion, construct, compound.

Example: This cloth is composed of a number of different kinds of fibers.

Usage in Sentence: Composed of, not from.

Don’t say: Our class is composed from thirty students.

ΓΌ Say: Our class is composed of thirty students.