There is no difference between the two expressions. "Believe you me" is, I think, a bit grammatically antiquated--but people still say it.

Silimko, In my opinion, both sentences are correct (that is, if you meant to type "than" rather than "that" in sentence two). I think there's a rule that says "use -er for short words, use 'more' for long words." For example, "mad-->madder" and

It depends on where you're doing your writing! If I leave the book closed and write on its cover, then I write on the book. If I open the book and write on one of the pages, then I write in the book.

You're right, Pemmican. I am a fraud!

I have no doubt that 'grinded' is always wrong. So is 'sitted'. There are a few instances of verbs that have two forms of a past tense. 'Hang' is an example. When referring to the state of something or someone, you would say "my pants hung on a

If you left out yes, and I think you should, then the sentence would read: "He assured me it would, because they had performed a diagnosis test."

I think that "to clarity" should be "to clarify." In the passage, "to clarity" makes no sense, but "to clarify" would mean: "Here is what I'm saying in simple terms: it may be necessary to advertise...." "To the astonishment" means "to my (or

You could say: "Do you think you could come down a little on the price?" "I'm not sure the car is worth $8000." You could suggest a lower price: "Well, how does $7000 cash sound?" "Would you consider taking $7000?" "How about $7000?" If

Sentence 1 is correct. You could rewrite sentence 2--"If you have a question, please feel free to contact me."

Hurricane: Such as and i.e. are good ways to begin a list of examples. Etc. should come at the end of the list. It indicates that the list continues in a similar way. Here's an example: "You should use only positive, odd-numbered integers, such