“glimpse”, not “glimpse”

by time news

2023-12-13 11:32:31

The shape glimpse It is a deformation of the verb glimpse (‘see something confusingly’, ‘conjecture something, suspect it, guess it’) that should be avoided.

However, sometimes phrases such as “The veteran coach does not seem to be able to speak a language other than Spanish, from what he has hinted at”, are sometimes found in the media, “The commander has hinted that they are ready for a counteroffensive” or “He didn’t want to make any statement, but he let out a smile that revealed that everything is more than agreed upon.”

The verb glimpse It is formed by the prefix in between- and the verb verwhile glimpse arises from hybrid analogy foreseecross of predict y provideequally wrong.

Therefore, in the initial examples it would have been appropriate to write “The veteran coach does not seem to be able to speak any language other than Spanish, from what he has hinted at”, “The commander has hinted that they are ready for a counteroffensive” and ” “He did not want to make any statement, but he let out a smile that revealed that everything is more than agreed.”

It should also be remembered that the verb glimpse is conjugated as ver and, although the shapes ve y ven They do not have an accent as they are monosyllable, glimpsed y glimpse They are accentuated graphically, since they are acute words ending in a vowel and a consonant. nrespectively: “There are those who already glimpse the future”, and not “There are those who already glimpse the future.”

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