A Different Incorrect “Comprise”
rogersgeorge on September 30th, 2020
I post these examples because so many people get “comprise” wrong. (NEVER say “is comprised of”!) This comic gets it wrong another way. The second panel in the second row:
“Comprise” goes from the single big thing to the many parts. An example: The early US comprised 13 states. You could say that “comprise” is the less wordy equivalent to “is composed of.” But here “composed” would have been okay. He’s going from the many (millions of polygons) to the big whole (the material world). In other words, those polygons compose the world.
Oh well.
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