By Grammar, American English

I would say - five operationsI've never heard anyone say "I've had three surgeries/a surgery" "I've had three (surgical) operations/an operation".I don't know if the term is used in American English.

Actually, infinitives are used in AmE as subjects. The location geographically or historically has nothing to do with it. But infinitives (and their complement(s), if any), taken together, can make noun phrases.To be absolutely precise, it is a noun phrase (NP) that must be the subject of a...

So American English is 'as of' whilst British English is 'as from'. A quick search on the internet gives that people tend to use 'as of' in Australia. You got that right. PBF

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Both the 2 replies are very helpful for me. Thank you very much!Mr. Wordy may be confused by the sentence "...which with share from our company...". I don't know if Feebs11 was also confused or not. The melamine paper factory is legally an independent joint venture. Fordeck Ltd...

Ok Mr. Wordy i will try to search on these from general grammar books. But they are so general i mean in American English words gets different forms or meaning. But thanks i will do net search as well

I don't fully understand the question. You have them lettered as if there is supposed to be a correct answer, but no context or directions to base a decision on. So, I will just comment on each.a. Might be ok in British English, but I never use this in American English.b. I use this one 90%...

This is a reasonable question. I don't think anyone here would claim that native speakers are never wrong, and that every opinion of every native speaker should be accepted without question. Sometimes native speakers disagree with each other, expecially when there are differences between...

Hi, grammar geek, thank you for your response.How about the following one?"What IT vendor do you contract with at the headquater?"OR"What IT vendor does your headquater contract with?" I agree with you that one contracts with an IT vendor,so I came up with the above sentence.

Grammar Geek,Thank you for the comment. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/3439193.stmThe accident had caused a two mile (3.2 kilometre) tailback on the westbound carriageway, a police spokesman said at about 2100 GMT. "tailback"What word sounds more common in American...