- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- phrase usage - I would like to inform you vs This is to inform you . . .
The first is more polite while the second is more impersonal and better suited to a corporate or institutional setting where the recipient might not have a relationship with the writer Both are however too wordy; the recipient knows you're informing her by the fact that you're sending her a message 'Asked for' is also too colloquial for a business or academic setting I'd use 'requested
- Ive found vs I found - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I don't think we can transcribe those lyrics with any certainty She could be singing "I've found " In any case, tense choices can reflect the speaker's thought Found could emphasize the fact that it's over between them: the finding of another lover is now a thing of the past, and can't be undone The present perfect would emphasize its recency
- 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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