I speak British English and I think I use them differently: Continually meaning repeatedly - doing something very frequently: She is continually making long telephone calls. Continuously meaning in a continuous manner, without breaks: A river

Wow! I want that car!" exclaimed the young man. "Then, I could pretend I'm / I was a big shot and impress all the girls in school." I think I'd have to say: "Then, I could pretend I was a big shot and impress all the

"a device useful for polishing shoes Not: a useful for polishing shoes device" - CalifJim In BE we'd be more likely to say: a useful device for polishing shoes - suggests that the device was designed for this purpose. a device

In British English none is singular, so none of us was in is certainly correct. People do often say none of us were in , but the plural sounds more natural to my ear if there is a strong plural pull later in the sentence, as in something like None

I would regard it as a normal spoken register for a slightly formal narrative, but only a slightly formal one. I'm taking 'like this' to mean using such a form of words. The answer to your question is, therefore, quite often. I think

You can say both, Vincent, but they mean different things. at the classroom - suggests that they are doing their decorating outside the classroom. in the classroom - suggests they are doing it inside. If they are doing it inside, that suggests

That bit from the BBC in an earlier post covers this for you. It's time we went. We are using It's time... here to say that something is not happening, but it should be happening. Compare also the following: It's time we left. Our

You can but I'm not sure it means what you want it to mean. My school shirt was wet when it was raining means it was (happened to be ) wet when it was (happened to be) raining. If you mean that it was wet by the rain say It got wet when it was

Hello Guzhao, It makes a difference. Says Plato is the historic present - everyone knows that Plato died years ago, but we sometimes use the present tense of dramatize things which happened in the past. Said Plato is more usual, less dramatic, and

see, you have the definition wrong. "fair" in this context means beautiful and lovely. Fair is foul and foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air. . It comes at the very start of the play: these are lines 11 and 12 of the opening