Hello all again! Which one is the correct usage? If I;m not mistaken, they both should be fine but "help to do smth" is american english and "help do smth" is british. Is it right? Many thanks in advance!

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

I can't agree with the final comment. See this note from www.m-w.com : usage A body of opinion favors in with the “ interest, benefit ” sense of behalf and on with the “ support, defense ” sense. This distinction has been observed by

Scotttiger09, there is no "simple" way to fully explain those two words. Briefly, (1) "Shall" in American English is often confined to questions: Shall we dance? Shall I open the door? (2) Some speakers use it as a strong

But to some people, that sounds wrong, doesn't it?-- It doesn't sound 'wrong'; it sounds hyper-correct, i.e. the writer thought he should use it there to be correct...but he shouldn't. "Speakers of British English usually say it is a long

While and whilst are conjunctions whose primary meaning is "during the time that". An example is: The days were hot while we were on vacation. I read a magazine whilst I was waiting. While and whilst can nowadays legitimately be

Hi Alc Are you familiar with the BNC and COCA? They are extremely handy for examples of usage. Here are the links: British National Corpus Corpus of Contemporary American English

Same here, but I have always thought that "whilst" was on the slow road out of common English usage. "Amongst" and "among" both seem to occur in American English however. Whilst "whilst" seems very King

" If I would have known ..." sounds plain wrong to me. I'm a British English speaker, and I'm not sure about American English usage here, but I'm guessing that in all forms of English this is inferior to "If I had