"To start" is an active construction, while "to get started" is a passive one. There are some schools of thought that object to the use of passive verbs in formal writing, though that opinion …

Jan 3, 2013 · They are both correct for different situations. For example, As on 16 May, he again failed to arrive at work on time. and As of 16 May he will have worked here for a full year.

Mar 2, 2019 · I'm confused because I've seen both mentioned in dictionaries. Example sentence (context: writing a story): On (the) one hand, I want to wrap up everything perfectly. On the …

Jan 4, 2016 · When adressing a group of people and wanting to find out who belongs to a certain subgroup, is it correct to use "who of you" or "which of you" at the beginning of the question? …

From Learner's Dictionary: Everybody vs Everyone Both of these words mean "every person," and in dictionaries, the meaning of everyone is often given as everybody, and vice versa. …

Apr 13, 2017 · Recall that in formal logic, your expressions are used as follows: A if B means that B implies A A only if B means that A implies B A if and only if B means that A is equivalent to …

Mar 21, 2014 · Here is an interesting discussion of US versus U.S. versus USA versus U.S.A. from Wikipedia: Manual of Style: In American and Canadian English, U.S. (with periods) is the …

Apr 7, 2015 · 9 per comments from @FumbleFingers: fine by me looks like a trendy british neologism. This can be seen by comparing two phrases in British vs American English for the …

Nov 16, 2019 · As I understood from the article: — First, most people deem that " to advocate something " is correct and " to advocate for something " is not. Therefore, the next examples …

A friend of mine recently used the word masseuse to describe a person that gives massages. I have never heard of this terminology before so I'm wondering what the difference is between …