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

Only sick can be used attributively, in other words, before a noun: a sick person. In British English, sick is often used to refer to nausea or other rather mild problems with one's health while ill denotes something serious which may require

You shouldn't really ever pronounce the as 'de/duh' in standard British English but it is a feature of some British accents, including some in London. I'd mainly associate it with a feature of certain immigrant community accents,

Hi Vctory Ong There is possibly a difference between British English and American English in this case. I would only use "travel expenses".

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

To me, a "pier" is, strictly speaking, a structure built out over the water on stilts, whereas a "wharf" is a structure built on the shore. But I guess this counts as "essentially the same thing". I'd

"I just learned that ... " - perfectly acceptable. 'Learning' is usually associated with reading about something or being informed by somebody. 'Discovering' is the process of finding out personally, by direct

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

This should answer your question: What is the difference between learned and learnt? These are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb learn.  Learnt  is more common in British English, and  learned  in American

Could anybody tell me how to differentiate between them ? 1. "go to school "and "go to the school" Go to school refers to going to do the activity (studying, being in class, etc.) and does not indicate a particular building