Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage by Unknown

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hence.

For the use of from hence, see FROM WHENCE, FROM HENCE.

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hendiadys

pronounced hen-diy--dis, is derived from a Greek phrase meaning ‘one by means of two’. It is a figure of speech in which a single complex idea is expressed by two words connected by a conjunction (usually and). for example nice and easy, good and ready.

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he or she

see GENDER-NEUTRALITY.

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her

should not be used as the subject of a clause in standard English, although the use is found in some regional and dialect usage:

Her and Kitty didn't have much to do with each other anymore—N. Virtue , 1990.

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