All of them are correct. Here are some usage notes from the dictionary: Usage Note: The adjective elder is not a synonym for elderly. In comparisons between two persons, elder means "older" but not necessarily "old": My elder

Liat. If you insist the sentence is correct, can you please educate me which one of the following definitions meets the grammatical requirement of the sentence in question? For the benefit of a slight doubt, I will invite other's opinions.

Hi, Was this sentence written by a British person? I have some doubts, because in my experience the use of the word 'administration' as a synonym for 'government' is a feature of American English. For that reason. I'd

I always thought those words could be used synonymously as nouns (when 'usage' doesn't refer to a habit). From Dictionary.reference.com: Usage: The act, manner, or amount of using; use:  the usage of a technical term; an instrument

As Prof Dunc has indicated, they aren't all synonyms. Furthermore, I would suggest that antecedent is rarely used to refer to ancestors (it's more often a grammatical term). Precursor, forerunner, predecessor, progenitor usually do not

Hi, I have always used "provided " as the correct form. But after researching on line, I believe both are coorect. Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.

Yank is a generic term that any foreigner could use to describe any American Not here (UK) it isn't. It can only apply to (any) citizen of the USA. Yankee is a specific term, used by Americans in the south-eastern part of the US It's also

I apologize for posting this twice, but Google is being oogly. NFL star Michael Vicks indicted for participating in dog-fighting: Tonight *** suggested a link between pit bull fighting and hip hop. This is news to me, Ive been into hip hop

In all cases where USA English would use "gotten", the correct British English form is "got". I don't think one can always just replace "gotten" with "got" and preserve the original meaning. Consider

Yes, strange, isn't it? It's now a quite ... perhaps, "dipstick", which is also now a British insult. Mike. Nimrod means 'hunter', as far as I know! :-) Andrea I see that www.onelook.com is now including Evan Morris's