| The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. |
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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3. Word Choice: New Uses, Common Confusion, and Constraints
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| § 5. above |
| The use of above as an adjective or noun in referring to a preceding text is most common in business and legal writing. In general writing, its use as an adjective (the above figures) was accepted by a majority of the Usage Panel in an earlier survey, but its use as a noun (read the above) was accepted by only a minority. | 1 |
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