Which is correct: Electric power engineering student Electrical power engineering student Answer When you are describing a task or job the normal usage is “electrical“. Let’s take out the other words and you would be an Electrical Engineer not an Electric Engineer. AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : 3bdullag , Answer Author : RyeɃreḁd
Where can I find a dictionary that contains words along with their commonly accepted “neighbors”? I had one, but it’s not for English language. The structure of this dictionary is the following. Take a noun in this dictionary. Along with its brief definition, the dictionary shows what adjectives, verbs, and other parts of speech are … Read more
The captain of a ferry appears to steer or drive it. What is the correct verb for this? Answer Captain is a verb; and pilot is a possibility too, although that has a specific meaning with regard to ships [a shipping pilot is usually someone who is locally skilled and will successfully negotiate hazards around … Read more
For the mathematically inclined fellows: If f is a function whose domain is the set A, do you say that f is defined on A or over A? Do both prepositions apply here or is the use of one of them decidedly wrong? Answer Generally, for mere functions I think defined on A is more … Read more
What is the appropriate preposition for the following sentence? Is having trust in your employer important to you? Is having trust for your employer important to you? Answer ‘Trust’, being a general feeling rather than a single abstract object, would be followed by “in”. Words like ‘propensity’, on the other hand, are singular abstract nouns, … Read more
What is the proper adjective to use with the word chance? Can chance be low, small, slim? What would be your suggestion? Answer All three are grammatical and idiomatic. A chance can be all of these things, and more. The top 50 collocations from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the British National … Read more
I would like to ask about the difference between the two phrases starting with and starting from. Take the following two sentences for example: Please give me all the names starting with A. Please give me all the names starting from A. I can gather that starting from means that I am interested in finding … Read more
If I want someone (in this case, a Professor) to do something for me that they don’t need to do (in this case, a second opinion on another Professor’s paper), can I ask whether I can “bother them for a second opinion”? The “for” would emphasize that I want the second opinion from the other … Read more
When would you use “expert in” and when would you use “expert on”? A quick google search yields about the same for both, but I have a feeling “expert in” can occur in sentences somehow with a different meaning altogether. Answer They do seem interchangeable but to me “expert in” implies doing knowledge rather than … Read more
I am trying to help a friend of mine proofreading an English email and she has a preposition there that I am not completely certain is correct. The original sentence was this: [Name of the competitor] had the lowest price in the market — [the price]. This seems a bit odd to me, but I … Read more
