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- 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
- 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")
- In BrE, do you say that you study in a programme or on a programme?
In British English we normally refer to being in the various stages of education this way: I'm at school ('in' is more American) I'm in college ('at' is common too, though) I'm on a course (either a college course or any other kind of study, such as a vocational study or a training programme) I'm at university
- What is the difference between had been and would have been?
A very thoughtful and hard question indeed; it pushed me to research a bit on the subject Continuous Conditional Your first example is a past perfect continuous sentence In general, it is used to indicate an action was happening before another action happened However, it can also be used to indicate past unreal condition For example: If I had been talking to him when he said that, I would
- Is She is under the shower a proper English sentence?
"She is under the shower" - that is a proper English sentence but it doesn't mean she is washing herself using the shower It means that she is physically positioned under the shower, either the shower head itself or in a room below, therefore its expectation is fairly rare One might infer that the water is running or that she is washing herself, but those are not the primary meanings of the
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