What are the rules for: They demanded that he do the job well? Why isn't it they demanded that he does the job well? Hi Your first sentence is in the subjunctive mood, which is often used to express wishes,

Hi Mr.Wordy, With the name like Dimsumexpress, it's apparent that I am advertising my origin by design. If I have to describe my English learning, I would say it's a mixed pot of AmE and BrE, with the former being a 75% influence

Does the following stand for: American, British and Canadian English? In English titles the initial letters of the first word and of all nouns, pronouns (except the relative 'that'), adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinating

I might be wrong, but I'm afraid "Who has completed all the exercises" might be ok, and "Who has demolished such a beautiful cemetary" might not. I see that in Jim's and Amy's examples there always seems to be an

1. Who has just taken my newspaper? 2. Who has broken the window? Well, I for one am hoping that one of our British cousins comments on Anton's specific sentences. To my American ear, the wording of sentence number 1 doesn't strike me as

It's not "Football"! Football is the sports with strong men and, well, footballs. Soccer is "Fussball" or "Foodbal" in english, closer to the german word! I'm English but most of the time I don't have a

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

In British English one would say all the "ands" which you have asked about. Thus: two thousand six hundred and eighty four. I believe that American (and it seems Canadian) English is different. Americans may well make an exception for

American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

TinyPixie, you are absolutely correct about the use of these prepositions, but there exists one nuance that you should take into consideration. Thus, on is used for giving phone numbers in British English, eg : Call us on 0800 0900017 , while at