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Hello, Guest, "advertise" is the US spelling, "advertize" the BE one. The noun form is advertisement, short form ad.

No - this site is specifically about marking written work. An 'F' paper is a fail. if you google 'faulty diction' you'll come across lots of sites concerned with proof reading, exam and essay marking etc. This is a teacher's correction code for students re: marking...

Sorry, Ponky, I didn't explain very well. Let me try again: 'Practise' is a noun, in the context of your sentence (it's modified by 'our', and implicitly by 'your'). For the noun use, 'practice' is the more usual spelling. 'Practise' is a variant. Your slogan also plays on the phrase 'practice...

Hi Jazz, Thanks for saying I could correct your post on line. Re: your reply to Ali; 1. In English we always begin a new sentence with a capital letter, and we use a capital letter for people's names, and for names of places such as London, the Indian Ocean etc. So your greeting should...

A couple of points. 1) I have a suggestion as to the reason why people from the u.s. think they have an enormous variety of accents, but no-one else does. This could be due to the typical u.s. insular, isolationist attitude which means they are often ignorant of the outside world in a number...

Another way of demonstrating that 'from John and I' is wrong is to look at the other pronoun combinations: 1. ???From John and we 2. ???From they and we 3. ???From he and she Which should be: 1a. From John and us 2a. From them and us 3a. From him and her It's true that you come across this...

Sweazey wrote: At least they " is Standard English. M-W online: Main Entry: an·a·lyse chiefly British variant of ANALYZE

Hi, Khoff and all you native English speakers! I've always been sympathetic with English/American people trying to study my native language, Bulgarian. We are lucky, because it is easier for us to learn English. It doesn't sound strange that inanimate nouns do not have gender in English - it just...

I looked in the dictionary and realize the real difference between "sucess" and "suceed" (one is the noun, the other is the verb) I tried to fix my essay, also I corrected the spelling as I could. Is it better now? What else do I have to change? Thanks a lot margarita To succeed, you should...

The diminutive suffix is "-y", and it is of very limited use, chiefly in the talk of children, and almost exclusively with one-syllable words, as far as I know. Sometimes other changes occur simultaneously with the addition of "-y". frog - froggy dog - doggy horse - horsey mouse - mousey cat -...