- What is the difference between professional and vocational?
This is what I copied from Quora: A vocation is generally a job that requires a particular set of skills acquired through experience or through training but not necessarily dependent on a college degree
- 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
- 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 You can say professional turner if its more appropriate
- phrase usage - I would like to inform you vs This is to inform you . . .
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- The irony is not lost on me meaning in this sentence
Normally, the following statement would be intended ironically The truly stupid are always correct It might mean in one context that the stupid are often incorrect, or in another context that it is foolish to call someone who is frequently correct stupid, or in a third context that the truly stupid never even recognize when they have been incorrect
- Ive found vs I found - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Both of them are correct, they just mean slightly different things I've found, which is the present perfect, means "as of this moment, I found someone (in the past)"; the present perfect is used to indicate that an action happened some time in the past but is related to the present
- 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
- 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
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