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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Is this the right way to use tenet in a sentence

I ought to keep reminding myself of my own tenet!
  

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Hi, The sentence is fine. ( But if you have to keep reminding yourself, it doesn't really sound like a tenet. ) You obviously need a context in which the listener knows or learns what your tenet is.

— Clive

  • Hi, The sentence is fine.
  • ( But if you have to keep reminding yourself, it doesn't really sound like a tenet.
  • ) You obviously need a context in which the listener knows or learns what your tenet is.
  • Note also that the word is not commonly used in everyday English.
  • Some people might not even know the word.
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Hi,

The sentence is fine.
( But if you have to keep reminding yourself, it doesn't really sound like a tenet.
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Others knowledge of what a word does or does not mean has absolutely NOTHING to do with it be properly used. Proper use of the English language has nothing to do with letting others know what certain words mean...by what you are saying, a person shouldn't use a word unless its used in a way that someone listening can understand that word by its context? So my word use has to be that of which I'm e
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Others' knowledge of what a word does or does not mean has absolutely NOTHING to do with its being properly used.
We are saying in a gentle way that the poster's writing is not very clear. And, this particular word, in thi
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