Practise or practice?
Verb and noun.
Practise or practice?
No. They are two different words! Advice is the noun, something you give someone to help them. Advise is the verb, the act of giving someone advice. They are even pronounced differently. The C in advice is voiceless, like the S in "say." The S in advise is voiced, like the Z in "zero." They are obviously related, but they are two different words with different meanings and different pronunciation.Does contemporary modern English abolish advice and standardize it advise?
We all feel comfortable and natural with the characteristics of our own language, and feel uncomfortable and unnatural with someone else's. Chinese has its own idiosyncrasies too, which make it just as difficult to learn as English. It is very unusual among the world's languages for tone to be phonemic, as it is in Chinese, Vietnamese and a few other languages. To be told that ji means "chicken" and ji means "how many?" doesn't make sense to most people because they don't notice the difference in tones.From the sentence it can tell you it is noun or verb, I think sometimes English is making things complicated, more difficult to learn, consume more memory power. This is the weakness of English.
In this case it's just British spelling vs. American spelling. But you can't depend on that to be a consistent difference. As we just discussed, "advise" and "advice" are two different words, pronounced differently, in both British and American English.Saint said:Practise or practice?
Formulas or formulae ?
Why winword spelling checker indicates formulae is wrong.
As Walter notes, "formulae" is acceptable and your spell checker is oversimplified. But outside of a scientific treatise it would be regarded as pompous or pedantic. English has been steadily normalizing irregularities. Nobody says "foci" instead of "focuses" or "vortices" instead of "vortexes" anymore. Of course there is a small backlash, e.g., historically unfounded "snuck" instead of "sneaked" or "dove" instead of dived. And we all enjoy playing with inflections. "After making sure there was a fresh box of Kleenices in my car, I took the kids to the zoo and they loved the walrera and the hippopotamodes."Formulas or formulae? Why winword spelling checker indicates formulae is wrong.
These days "alum" is acceptable for either. But you have to be careful to put the accent on a-LUM, becaus the other kind of AL-um is aluminum potassium sulfate, K2SO4⋅Al2(SO4)3⋅24H2O.Note, most people (since they don't know Latin) seem to use alumni incorrectly, using it as a singular: "I am an alumni of that university" when they are either an alumnus (male) or alumna (female) of that university.
I just want to know the reason why you allow "can" and "not" to be joined together.I just want to know the reason why do you allow to join can and not together?
If it is correct, why do we not also allow the following combinations?If it is correct, why not we also allow the following combinations?
Languages are not designed by scientists. They evolve naturally, and this evolution is guided unconsciously by people who are not scholars. As a result, every language is full of illogical constructions. Why do we say in Spanish, Yo no tengo nada, literally "I do not have nothing"? In French, when we ask "What is that?" why do we say, Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça?, literally, "What is that which that is which that?"Donot -- Didnot -- Willnot -- Shouldnot -- ?????
I just want to know the reason why do you allow to join can and not together?
If it is correct, why not we also allow the following combinations?
Edited: "If it is correct, why do we not also allow the following combinations?"
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Ten thousands years, OR
Ten thousand years?
In writing cheque/check, we should write:
1) Ten thousands dollars,
2) Ten-thousand dollars, OR
3) Ten thousand dollars?
Yes, I know that. But why is 2 unique? We don't have two different words for 3, 4, 5, etc.Two, in the sense of number - er. Two, in the sense of "two things" - liang.
When you find the answer to that, please tell me why "east-west" means "thing."Thousand-ten thousands- qian-wan, means MUST. e.g., ni qian-wan yao ji de, You must remember. I am not sure why 1k+10k can mean MUST in chinese language.
Never use a plural form when forming a number.Ten thousands years, OR Ten thousand years?
As I already mentioned, 1) is wrong because it contains a plural.In writing cheque/check, we should write: 1) Ten thousands dollars, 2) Ten-thousand dollars, OR 3) Ten thousand dollars?
The simple answer: not when counting. One thousand, two thousand, twenty thousand, six hundred eighty-seven thousand. You say "thousands" when you're using it as a noun, not a number.When do we use "thousands", "hundreds"?
Not in American English. We say "She died..." I've never seen it that way in British English either. I think you may be reading biographies or historical accounts, where writers sometimes put everything in the present tense to make the reader feel closer to the story.She died on 15th May 1980. Or: She dies on 15th May 1980. I read that the verb "die" mostly used as present tense.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...-to-cut-risk-says-leading-microbiologist.htmlBritish supermarkets should withdraw German produce from their shelves to reduce the risk of an outbreak of a deadly strain of E. Coli, one of Britain's leading microbiologists has said.
In America we refer to all fresh fruits and vegetables as produce. It is a noun in the same category as food, water, air, meat, etc.: It does not require a definite article. "Our supermarket stocks canned goods, fresh meat and produce."Produce or product?