By British English, Expressions

StartFragment> In 'figure' article in a dicitonary, 'a head for figures' come up two times and 6 figures • a natural ability with figures 8 a person in a painting or a model of a person: • the figure in the background • A Head for Figures I want to know what 'a...

StartFragment> In 'figure' article in a dicitonary, 'a head for figures' come up two times and 6 figures • a natural ability with figures 8 a person in a painting or a model of a person: • the figure in the background • A Head for Figures I want to know what 'a...

<Hmm, in the other thread, you wanted to hear a definition of a standard from someone, even if you know a real standard doesn't actually exist. And here you are asking why some things are often stigmatized, but others rarely are. So I don't understand what it is that you are trying to...

Something to chew on:THE NOTION OF STANDARD SPOKEN GRAMMAR The term ‘standard grammar’ is most typically associated with written language,and is usually considered to be characteristic of the recurrent usage of adult,educated native speakers of a language. Standard grammar ideally reveals...

There are some differences in vocabulary and idiom across the British Isles, and you might encounter some regional words and expressions that you're not familiar with. But the core vocabulary and grammar are not hugely different, and you might find that a bigger problem is pronunciation. If...

I think that there might be regional/dialect variations in usage here. According to the version of British English that I speak: "excited about" is the usual expression. "excited with" sounds somewhat unnatural. "excited of" is wrong. Another possibility is...

Hi Mr Anonymous again ! Perhaps , there is a slight difference between British English and American English and you are using the latter.In USA you don't use this or that expression , but in UK they do use it. So that 's the problem we , Asian students , are facing .Sometimes we don't know...

Hi Monlisautan, I remember “Longman” from way, way back in elementary school in my motherland. For beginners, Longman was all people know before it had the name “Oxford” attached to it. Today, the first few pages of lessons still ring in my head. It read like this: A manA panA man and a...

Hi, As a native British English speaker I have to say I have never heard this expression before, and I wonder if the person you heard it from made a mistake. Seonaid

CalifJim wrote:<<Is 'to' still necessary in sentence 1? Yes. Is sentence 2 correct? No. I am not familiar with the expression second-last.Maybe it's British. I don't know. >>CJ Yes, it is British English. I've found the following: Search Results Oxford University Google...