Dear friend, while there exists such a word combination ( ie, mentality level ), its use is extremely rare - once in 400 million words, as shown by the Corpus of Contemporary American English, at least. In your example, the word mentality most

Hi, Is "in broad strokes" a common substitute for "generally, without going into details" in American English? From a native speaker's standpoint, would it sound out of left field if I said these sentences:

They're all correct, Anon. The word gotten is generally used as the past participle of the verb "get" in American English, and got is used as the past participle in British English. Thus your first sentence seems to be AmE, and the

According to Newbury House Dictionary of American English, "service" is an uncountable noun when it means the care of a machine to keep it in good working order: When our oven broke, we called a repairman for service . According to

Does everything have to be in full sentences? I mean African Americans have their own English lingos and they can describe a whole paragraph in a few words. What's the difference between Black English and Standard American English?

Hello, this is my first post here but I've been visiting the site for at least several months since I have found some very interesting discussions here. My question is going to be really complicated and it will take you some time to read

Hi. I'm a native American English speaker. Most of your sentences sound very natural. 1. The most important thing in life is not love. Sounds okay. The sentence does sound like you mean to say more, like you mean that love isn't the

Hello, The Oxford Advanced Learner´s Compass refers that the verb "To Hire" meaning to give somebody a job, is mainly used in American English. I would like to know if a sentence like "The company is hiring new workers"

Hi, soon, I will be going under a minor surgery. No. Soon, I will be undergoing (a) minor surgery. Note you need a capital letter at the start. I believe using 'a' here is more characteristic of American English.

Thank you! I have enough money to buy a coat. (Having money is non-eventive.) So *I wish you would have enough money doesn't work. I have looked up these sentences in English dictionaries: I wish he would be more decisive. I wish you would