Another Nice “Comprise”

rogersgeorge on December 30th, 2021

“Comprise” means something like “is composed of” and a lot of people, wanting to sound high class, get it wrong. Here’s how to use “comprise”:

By at least 55,000 years ago, the first Australians had navigated open seas in boats to reach the super-continent of Sahul, or Greater Australia (comprising Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania, which were one land mass when sea levels were lower). 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03497-0

The whole thing comprises its parts. Got it?

The sentence is from a book review. The book is Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs Pat Shipman Belknap (2021) and here’s a picture from the review:

The Dachshund Parade marched the Royal Route to enter the Main Square in Krakow.
Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty

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