fivejedjon No variety of English is better or worse than any other. Except perhaps Canadian, which seems to combine the worst features of both major varieties.
It depends what you mean by 'better'. If you intend to move to Kansas and spend the rest of your life there, you may as well learn American English. If you intend to attend Oxford or Cambridge, you may as well learn British English. CJ ...
enoon It has been said that a language is a dialect with an army. You work it out.
Hi friends, I cannot understand the meaning of "horn-hooting" in the following text: “Better still, thanks to them and the construction boom generated by the reordering of civic life, the economy is pulling out of the slump. Who said the spirit of ...
"No, sir, they seem to like it; unless, of course, one of these people, like that man up there, has made it impossible for them to enjoy it anymore." Is that second part, after the semi-colon, a fragment because of the word "unless"? The thing is, ...
Pretty much. I advise that you use ellipses for that purpose sparingly, though. ...
enoon In dialogue you need concern yourself only with how your character would talk and not at all with grammar. Nobody speaks in punctuation. A period works fine for a slight pause despite the fragment: "No, sir, they seem to like it. Unless, of ...
If the sentence is negated, the meaning of it is changed accordingly. However, some verbs are resistant to this. For example, 'think' as in, I do not think that she came = I think that she did not come. A brief explanation so far is what I found in ...
Mister Micawber victoIs it necessary - especially in...
I knew this would happen eventually. I couldn't disagree more. The English alphabet has 26 letters. Diacritics are an affectation unless you italicize the foreign word. ...
Philip I believe that the choices depend on one's audience. As far as I'm concerned, without (2) accents résumé looks like resume, an altogether different word. American Heritage offers the word with no accent and the word with only the final e ...
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