The phrase "account of things" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a description or explanation of various events, situations, or items.
Example: "In her report, she provided a detailed account of things that transpired during the meeting."
Alternatives: "narrative of events" or "description of matters".
"In your account of things, I do everything wrong.
Or should we also take account of things like employment, industrial production, and retail sales?
Indeed, in Lipton's cringe-inducing account of things, it was filial love that spawned her obsession with the City of Light.
Weibo, on the other hand, fills the gap between the official account of things on the mainstream media in China and what actually happens on the ground.
There's a nod here to the Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown's intoxicating "Beachcomber", and Crawford also wants to include the Gaelic language-world in his account of things.
Then I looked at my own diary, my own account of things, and I actually found it really inspirational and was quite proud of myself".
I understand why my colleague George Packer, who's one of the best journalists around, is resistant to Twitter or anything else that induces him to spend time staring at a screen and reading other people's accounts of things and aggregating those accounts, or aggregating their aggregators.
I began to learn to read French by reading the A.P. story in the French paper after reading the American A.P. story, and finally learned to read it by reading accounts of things I had seen — les événements sportifs — and from that and les crimes it was only a jump to Dr. de Maupassant, who wrote about things I had seen or could understand.
The strangeness, like the strangeness in Ishiguro's most imaginative novel, "The Unconsoled," is ingeniously evoked — by means of literal-minded accounts of things that don't quite add up — and teasing out the hidden story is the main pleasure of the book.
The strangeness, like the strangeness in Ishiguro's most imaginative novel, "The Unconsoled," is ingeniously evoked by means of literal-minded accounts of things that don't quite add up—and teasing out the hidden story is the main pleasure of the book.
