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COMPOSED OF |
Although “comprise” is used primarily to mean “to include,” it is also
often stretched to mean “is made up of”—a meaning that some critics
object to. The most cautious route is to avoid using “of” after any form
of “comprise” and substitute “is composed of” in sentences like this:
“Jimmy’s paper on Marxism was composed entirely of sentences copied off
the Marx Brothers Home Page.”
