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The only time Mr. Icahn restrained this blizzard of language was to alter the phrase "pile of …" to end with "absurdity" rather than a word that cannot be spoken on live television (though that hasn't stopped him in the past).
The changes may be so small you may not even notice, but could include everything from altering the phrasing in a court summons to sending text message reminders in the hopes of getting you to respond more quickly, or at the very least, comply with the law.
In the end, Orwell simply "crossed out or altered the phrases that seemed to show too definitely what was happening".
After the explosion, astronaut Jack Swigert radioed mission control to say, "Houston, we've had a problem". The film gives the famous line instead to Jim Lovell, played by star Tom Hanks, altering the phrase to the more immediate, "Houston, we have a problem". Lightning and wolves: Both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space programs have faced a few interesting, though not catastrophic, threats.
Based also on the comments and our responses in item #2, we altered the phrases from "relative strengths" to "differential effects" of light and feeding where applicable in the revised manuscript.
He is, to alter the meaning of the phrase a bit, beneath contempt, or else above it.
Sometimes, if you do not pay attention to this, you can alter the meaning of the phrase alarmingly, so that "And with his stripes we are healed" becomes "And with his tripes we are healed".
This fact is enough to ensure that the phrase in fact refers to only one individual, but it does not alter the linguistic generality of the phrase.
Although there are a couple of prettily brooding ballads with orgasmic climaxes, including the first single, "The Day That Never Comes," most songs here rely on a different kind of hook: the interest that comes from trying to follow rapid-fire guitar riffs and drum patterns, sudden tempo changes and dynamic shifts that alter the effect of repeated phrases.
If, on the other hand, a phrase provides information about a noun that is crucial to the point of the sentence (as in "Every Cambridge restaurant which failed to clean its grease trap was infested with roaches", where omitting the italicised phrase would radically alter the meaning), and if it is pronounced within the same intonation contour as the noun, then don't set it off with punctuation.
Yet the research also underscores how tiny changes in word choice -- tweaks that alter the tone, not the meaning, of a phrase -- can alter how people behave.
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The phrase "alter the phrasing" primarily functions as a verb phrase, indicating the action of modifying or changing the way something is expressed. As indicated by Ludwig AI, it is correct and acceptable in written English.
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