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- What is the difference between professional and vocational?
Vocations almost always carry the connotation of some kind of manual labor (plumber, carpenter, electrician, mechanic, etc) By contrast, "profession" implies some kind of white collar job (historically the contrast was much stronger, but today any kind of "knowledge worker", including being a clerk, is considered a "professional")
- May I use the word vacational (as opposed to vocational)?
After being declined by Grammarly, Microsoft Word and other grammar spelling tools, I'm quite skeptical to use the adjective word 'vacational' i e related to 'vacations' — free leisure time I hav
- I used to and I was used to - What is the difference?
Your two sentence are slightly different in meaning, one is about drinking coffee, the other about the habit of drinking coffee, the habit aspect is implicit in the your first sentence and explicit in the second I used to drink coffee every day habitually I drank coffee every day I was used to drinking coffee every day I had become accustomed to drinking coffee every day
- phrase meaning - What does “Last school attended” means? - English . . .
That might be written out as a full question as follows: What is the last school that you attended? So, that means the school you most recently attended If the form is intended for adults, it will be your final school The trick with forms like this is, I suspect, to think of the label and gap as being a short declarative sentence with a missing verb or preposition, and a space for you to
- word usage - I have finished vs I have already finished - English . . .
I have finished would usually be uttered immediately after finishing, but (emphatic) I have already finished wouldn't normally occur until some time after finishing - often, specifically as a contradictory response to something implying that I might not have yet finished In rare circumstances, an over-eager exam-taker might leap up and say I have already finished, half-an-hour into an exam
- phrase usage - go to university or go to the university - English . . .
In BrE (British English) one says "I go to university" meaning one attends classes for credit at an institute of higher learning; one would say "I'm going to the university" meaning one intends to physically go to the campus (In AmE (American English) one says "I go to college" even if the institution is a university )
- grammar - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Is this the right way to write about choices limitation Students' choices should be restricted\\limited to\\in vocational courses Or Your choices are limited to\\in the following options (a or
- Formal equivalent for in fact and actually
There is a case to be made for 'in fact' to be formal and informal My view is that formal use would be as the start of a sentance informal use, such as in speach, would be to drop 'in fact' within a sentance to add emphasise So much like a lot of English it is the use that determines if it is formal or informal
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