Hi there!  As I'm preparing for the CAE examination, I pretty much have to be careful with my writing style. The problem is, I seldom write any articles of reports in English, so I'm not sure if the way I write them is correct or not, because,

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

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

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

Jame is a very peculiar name, but you can contract it with is as you have done. The pronunciation of Spanish is and Spanish's is the same, so there's no point in using the apostrophe construction. Use the contraction only when the

I'm more familiar with the name "James" than "Jame" but perhaps "Jame" is a common name in other cultures. If the person's name really is "James" then it becomes "James's here"

Even Jame's here!? What about my Spanish's mediocre at best.