"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 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 …

Welcome to the site. Such an answer would normally be closed for lack of information, I leave it open because you are a welcome newcomer. However, if you read the guidance, you will see …

Dec 22, 2014 · Sentence: it's not what's on the table that matters, but who (is/are) in the chairs. I thought are might be correct because of plural chairs, but family members disagree.

Mar 27, 2015 · Skeptics argue that these kinds of initiatives are doomed to remain perennially peripheral and ineffectual. Intuitively, changing ineffectual to ineffective in the sentence above …

Dec 11, 2014 · I'm confused about the use of "No worry" vs. "No worries". Are both of them correct? If so, do they have the same meaning, or do they mean different things? What are the …

May 18, 2018 · What is the difference between the phrases "hypothetically speaking" and "theoretically speaking"? If one wants to make a point using an example that would likely …

Is this correct? The person with whom I'm doing the project should be here soon. If it is, is with always a dative preposition (like mit in German)?

Apr 28, 2017 · I think "speeded" may have been the appropriate past-tense form for "to speed" in the past, but I wonder if it is still considered the correct form. In spoken English, one usually …