By British English, Nouns

Hi Sharleenandrea,The difference between the two words is that in British English, 'practise' is a verb, and 'practice' is a noun (note that Americans don't use 'practise' as the verbal form, and use 'practice' for both the noun and the verb). In the sentence...

Written Formula for Ending a Letter (British English)Informal, personal (to close friends and family):With loveBest wishesSemi-formal / informal (emails, notes, business memos):Kind regardsBest regardsRegardsFormal letters:Yours sincerelyUse when you know the addressee by name (Dear John / Dear...

Hi LiJ This topic has been discussed before and I hope you will find the following helpful. In British English 'sport' is the general term and is an uncountable noun. For example: (1) He is not interested in sport. (2) There is too much sport on television. (3) She excels at...

Hi New2grammar I've gone through the following Britsh English dictionaries and the definitions are as follows: local a person who lives in a particular place or district: The locals are very friendly. (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary) noun: locals The locals are the people...

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...

Yes, indeed it is! from Cambridge Dictionaries:"sit: to take an examination:After I've sat my exams, I'm going on holiday."As for resit, it's both a verb and a noun in the UK. In my Uni, those who didn't pass their exams were given another chance in August, so they had...

In British English p. stands for 'page' and pp. 'for pages', so Ant is correct when he says that the plural of p. is pp. Here is an example from a book, and below the definition from a dictionary.p (PAGE) noun plural ppWRITTEN ABBREVIATION FOR page (PAPER)See p. 27.The references...

Hi StenkaPeople may say what you have written in casual speech but them is not good English in this context. Put things/items in order would be better. In British English it is very common to use a plural pronoun or verb to refer to a whole that consists of many people even though the actual...

Hi Avangi This is what I posted earlier in the same thread: To my ear, "I'm not a native or a teacher" is better than "I'm not a native nor a teacher." ( I remember reading that the latter is also correct. ) Your sentence: I'm not a native, nor am I a teacher. ...

Hello, another English teacher here. I have been teaching English in China for about 2 and a half years now and also speak fluent French, decent Spanish and am learning Chinese (not as hard as you may think once you get the hang of those tones, easy grammar). Now I'll start off by saying that...