- 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
- phrase choice - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Training to be a plumber, lawyer, medical doctor, engineer, and or historian might fall under tertiary, higher, vocational, higher, continuing, or other such "education" type terms, depending on where you're standing and who you're talking to
- 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
- grammar - with the profession or in the profession - English . . .
Completed his education as a turner at the company-affiliated Basic Vocational School for working people, WZE, in Berlin This keeps the education and profession in the same thought, rather than tack it on at the end
- What is the correct word order in the included sentence?
As a non-native speaker I’m struggling with how to order the clauses in the following sentence: Because I, as a graduate of a vocational college and as someone who has already successfully absolve
- 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 )
- 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
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