Why is it grammatically wrong to say 'entire society'?

Because "society" doth mean the entire group of people in a community. Your brain knows that, deep down, but shallow up, you don't. That's why it registers as "Wrong? Right? Some impossible paradoxial combination?" You would be saying the entire ... read more

Saying"an entire society" indicates that the society itself has multiple feelings (in this case), which it does not. You may say that different sets of people within the society have different feelings, but not the society in and of itself. read more

Linguists generally would argue that the language of educated middle-class speakers is not better (or worse) than the language of other social groups, any more than Spanish, say, is better or worse than French, Navaho better or worse than Comanche, or Japanese better or worse than Chinese. read more

"Comprise" means"contains, is made up of, embraces": the whole comprises the parts, the parts compose the whole."Is comprised of" should properly be rephrased as either"comprises" or"is composed of" ("the galaxy comprises many stars" or"the galaxy is composed of many stars"). read more