Which one of these is correct and why? Is there a difference between American English and British English? Or spoken vs written English? To drop the "to" or not?  24-hour access to your Personal Account and the 24-hour Support Desk will help solve every possible online issue.  24-hour access to your Personal Account and the 24-hour Support Desk will help to solve every possible online issue.
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What is the correct way to use infinitive after the verb "help": with or without "to"?  For example:     Please, help me to understand this.   or:     Please, help me understand this.
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From comments to , I learn that The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary says , shows the word weekdays is an adverb.  It seems to me that in "We open weekdays at 7 a.m.", and "We open tomorrow at 7 a.m." both weekdays and tomorrow are the same "part of speech" - and again in "I'll go tomorrow".  I will happily describe words like happily and quickly as adverbs - for example...     "I'll go quickly", and by extension "I'll go quickly and quietly".   On the other hand...     "I'll go tomorrow" can't be extended to "I'll go tomorrow and quietly".   Am I being thick, or is OALD spouting nonsense?
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It's time colleges helped you compare apples to apples. (The Boston Globe)  If the time is a present moment, why does the journalist use &quot;help&quot; in the past tense? Or is &quot;helped&quot; subjunctive?
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I was just copyediting  and my native English speaker Sprachgefühl told me I had to correct the grammar of one sentence:     ... 5–6 weeks are a lot of time ...   by changing the are to is. But as I was doing so I started wondering why is it that in this case it seems that I have to make the verb disagree with the plural subject?  So is my feeling for English going bad or if I did the right thing, how could I explain this to somebody who's learning English for instance?
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This question is inspired by comments on . The original poster wrote:     How to correct this error?   And comments say that it's an incorrect question. Better is     How do I correct this error?   I am not a native English speaker, so the fact that both versions sound natural to me is quite irrelevant. But I would like to ask anyway whether the first version is really bad.  I have seen a lot of questions starting with How to, so if you say that the first version is incorrect, could you please summarize when it is OK to use How to and when it is preferable to say How do I.
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There are many places suggest not to mix British and American spelling in IELTS test, such as the articles on  and nativespeakeronline (No link here. I don't have enough reputation to post more than 2 links). When I search on forums, the most common idea is people in North America prefer -ize and people in other places prefer -ise. However, an article on  says:     the Oxford University Press insists that words such as computerize, capitalize, capsize, organize, organization, privatize, publicize, realize should take the -ize ending     And for some words in this list like "organization", people on forums say most British still prefer "organisation". In this case, if I stick to using British spelling on IELTS test, should I use -ise or -ize for the words in this list?
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For various such sentences in many cases I get confused, it seems different for different cases. I want to know if someone left doing something for permanantly then what should be used? Also give some examples for different cases. Suppose... "I left my bag" means "I forgot my bag". but If I want to say the same for permanentaly "I left bringing my bag". Where should we use "stop" and "quit" then?
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I hear and read them all the time. I mean stuff like:      You're just going to stay here?   Instead of:      Are you just going to stay here?    Then I write like this out of habit and get called out on my grammar issues by people who speak English much worse than I do. That's kinda embarrassing. So, could someone please explain to me whether it's correct or not? Are they acceptable at all, and if so, in which situations?      So, what? You're gonna kill me now?
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I decided to make sure that I know this important difference between American and British English, so I wrote what I have found out so far and I would be grateful to anyone who reads this and tells me whether I am wrong, or not.  In British English when people say  to hospital or in hospital when  talking  about somebody being there as a patient they don't use the definite article : "I had to go to hospital", "She spent two weeks in hospital". And the meaning is that somebody was there as a patient.   If then for some other reasons British English speakers  will use the definite article which will change the meaning itself, I noticed that, in American English, native speakers often use the  the and if they need to show that somebody is in church to pray,  in school as a student, in hospital as a patient, in prison as a prisoner, they use 'in' and not 'at'. Do American English speakers use 'at' like British English speakers use 'the' to give the sentences a different meaning?    Are my sentences correct? Do they show American English usage?   He is in the school. (enrolled as a student) He is at the school. (for some different reasons) He is in the hospital. (as a patient) He is at the hospital. (visiting somebody) He is in the church. (to pray) He is at the church. (for some different reasons) He is in the university. (as a student) He is at the university. (not as a student) He is in the college. (as a student) He is at the college. (Not as a student) He is in the prison. (as a prisoner) He is at the prison. (not as a prisoner)
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In the sentence-     You must wear a suit to an interview   shouldn't the to be replaced by for? Or what's the difference between these two here?
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For example, I found the following sentence written by a native English speaker (UK) so I'm going to assume that he knows how to put it the right way, although I wouldn't use this form.     I now have a bit more time to fix bugs   etc but I'm open to offers if anyone   wants to help maintain this module   with me?   Is it correct or is the question mark misused here?
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I have often heard people say 101, as one-zero-one, and also as one-oh-one. Which is correct, and why? Does the difference between British English and American English have to do something with it?
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I need your help. So, "have to" instead of "must" is correct, but can I abbreviate this with 've to?  Is this a mistake, or can I use it so???
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I'm a non-native English speaker, and my automatic spellchecker seems to accept both therefore and therefor. Is one orthography preferred ? Is that a British vs. American difference ? Or an old vs. more recent orthography ? Or something else ?
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Are the following two sentences correct?     I want you to go to sleep.   and     I want you going to sleep.   If they are both correct, what's the difference?
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Suppose I want to refer to a 24-hour period (from midnight till midnight). The word "day" can in fact mean "24 hours" (as in ), however it's somewhat ambiguous. I believe that if I say something like "just wait a day", most people will understand it in a common meaning. I could also say "just wait 24 hours", but that sounds a little weird to me, about as much as saying "I want 127.5 grams of cheese, please" in a store.  So how would a native speaker refer to the 24-hour period to avoid ambiguity (and being concise in the same time)? Maybe there is a fancy scientific word for it?
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I need to request leave for one day and for more than one day.  What's the correct way of using the word day?  Which is correct for a single day of leave?        1 day's leave   1 day leave      What about more than one day?        2 day's leave   2 days' leave      Please clarify with explanation.