The New York Times: Book Club: Read ‘What We Can Know,’ by Ian McEwan, With the Book Review
Book Club: Read ‘What We Can Know,’ by Ian McEwan, With the Book Review
The New York Times: Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘What We Can Know’
One-to-one is used when you talk about transfer or communications. You may use one-to-one when you can identify a source and a destination. For eg., a one-to-one email is one sent from a single person to another, i.e., no ccs or bccs. In maths, a one-to-one mapping maps one element of a set to a unique element in a target set. One-on-one is the correct adjective in your example. See Free ...
The 'one hand' could be any generic hand (no article) or a specific one (definite article). 'The other' refers to the 'matching hand' of the first one. There can only ever be one, and it is being referred to explicitly as the partner of the first, therefore it needs a definite article.
Both 'a single' and 'one single' are correct and commonly used phrases in English. They are interchangeable and can be used to emphasize the singularity of an item or person.
At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar of the literature of 1990 to 2030, props up his ...
Ian McEwan’s latest novel, “What We Can Know,” is many things at once: It’s a science fiction imagining of a future world devastated by climate catastrophe; it’s a literary mystery about a scholar’s ...