By British English, Grammar

Thanks everyone. I'm in Australia, and we tend to use British English more often than American. I'll leave the commas out

Hi AnonYou can by all means have a lot of intent in your letter but no indention is necessary these days. (Just referring to a previous reply.) I have got(ten) the impression from my British friends' letters that commas are out of style in British English. (However, I don't know your nationality...

English speakers DO commonly use incorrect terms or grammar, whether it be verb tenses or whatever. It doesn't bother me if many or most people say 'Oh' instead of 'zero' in phone numbers. I do too sometimes, depending on who I am speaking with. I went to a school in Australia that taught a...

The differences in grammar between formal American English and formal British English are quite small. One can usually read several pages of a book and have no clue as to where it was written.

Wow, what a lot of nonesense.Is American English simply lazy English with disregard for the fundamentals of the language, or is it a valid simplification of an overly complex and irregular language?Huh? What are you talking about? I was hoping nobody would ask, but since you did, I much...

Grammar Geek wrote:You'd say freshwater fish... We need to yell for Francesca to come in here - this is her speciality, I think. Here I am My speciality is marine fisheries in Mediterranean sea, but I found this site (FAO) that you could find interesting: it's about Management systems for...

Annvan wrote:I hope to move (back) to Manila in the future and offer English tuition to Filipino teenagers preparing either for college/university or entering the business world/ a career. The thing is that I'm English, so my 'version' of English is British rather than American. My question is:...

Thank you everyone for your contribution. I notice that even among native speakers there might be some disagreement but is this a matter of dialect: some usages are accepted in American English and not in British English; or is it a matter of idiolect: personal choice even among the same...

Nona The Brit wrote:Yes they are different. Putting accent to one side, there are differences in vocabulary, spelling and grammar. Of course we can understand each other and any differences in vocab can sometimes lead to a humorous situation, but they are different. Yes ,Vocabulary sometimes I...

Hi Quoc Have got is a two-word verb that means the same thing as have (when referring to possession -- see link). http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/have_got.html This should not be confused with the present perfect tense of have (in British English). In American English...