Just guessing, disestablishmentarian. They like to torure kids at spelling contests with it.

I have to write an essay on obesitas. Could you please check it on grammatical errors, tenses, spelling, sentence structure, coherence,..? Thank you very much! IS OBESITAS REALLY SUCH A BIG PROBLEM? Each day, we are astounded by newspaper

The "l" of "bell" when it ends a word is kind of a "half l" when compared to the initial "l" in "love" which allows the "l" voicing to be completed by going to a vowel. Yet the

Pls check my essay... Pls correct my grammar, tenses,spelling and sentence structure...thx very much. I could tell that my friend was excited by the looks of her face. Natalie was going in for the talent contest, American Idol, which was a

Hi efsun42 -- welcome to English Forums. Plese try to use correct spelling, capitalization and punctuation when you post here. I know that "u" and "i" are fine in instant messages, but on an English language forum we really prefer "you" and "I".

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 don't think there's a contraction for "was", at least in most varieties of English, although I remember reading somewhere that 's can also be a contraction of was (but don't think it very common and I guess it's

I don't fully understand what a contraction is. So if I put an 's, 'll, 'd, 've, etc after any word does it make it a contraction? Only in spoken English. But in written English, some contractions are not usually written that

I don't fully understand what a contraction is. So if I put an 's, 'll, 'd, 've, etc after any word does it make it a contraction? Pretty much, yes. You can't do it after every word, but don't ask me which

Hi CB, Thanks for pointing out the spelling thing! I think it comes from my native language, where we write " socio-economico " or " socio-economica " (depending on whether the adjective qualifies a masculine or feminine noun