I think you may be asking for explicit, black and white answers, to questions which don't lend themselves to such answers. There seem to be two problems in that there are: *Differences between British and American usages. *Differences in

As a native English speaker, born and living in England, I'd like to confirm that both 'while' and 'whilst' are in common usage in the UK and the previous replies more than adequately describe how to use them. However, as some

I'm finding the heading, and thus the purpose, of this survey confusing. If you don't know what the survey is about yourself or its purpose, how can you describe it in a title? Can you ask for more information before you do this?

The oxford comma is usually omitted in BrE because a listing comma already represents 'and' or 'or'. 'He likes apples and oranges and grapes' becomes 'He likes apples, oranges and grapes' -- among a few other

Hi Hohhot! I'm glad to see a Mongolian from Inner Mongolia here. I'm from the independent Mongolia. And I've been to the Inner Mongolian border city, Erenhot, en route to Beijing. I heard people speaking Inner Mongolian there and it

If you mean he possesses a red car then you don't need "got"; you can just say "My father has a red car". Nevertheless, in British English it's extremely common in conversation for people to use "got" to

Hi AlpheccaStars and Mr. Wordy, Thanks for you help. One American client says to me: a celebration dinner, while I saw a post in Yahoo, saying Beckham is having a celebratory dinner. Do you think it's probably because the

Vctory: In the future. please post an essay one time only. Duplicate postings annoy the moderators and confuse the participants. If no one answers your post, you can reply to it, it will bring the post to our attention. Making shorter posts, for

Hi Kooyeen I have never concentrated on learning any particular variety of English because it has always been my objective to acquire as good a command of the languagae as possible. Limiting my efforts to just one variety would constitute a