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Bookmark or Share- politeness - The difference between "I am" and "My name is" in a face ...Never use "I'm John Smith" when you introduce yourself; instead, use "My name is John Smith.". I would agree with this much: in general, using "my name is" is probably preferable to "I am", because there is more to who we are than our name.
- Differences between "the USA", "the US" and "the States""The States" refers to the collection of states, "The US" refers to the states that are united, or, more loosely, to the union of States. The problem is that there's very, very, very many nations made up of multiple states. Even Belgium is made up out of 3 parts that could very well be called states.
- "The USA" versus "USA" - English Language Learners Stack ExchangeThe United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly referred to as the United States (US or U.S.) and America, is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal district. I always thought that it was with the definite article like "The United States" or "the USA" or "the UK" or "the United Kingdom" etc.
- Use of "among" and "between" [duplicate] - English Language Learners ...What I have learnt that we use "among" when we are talking about more than two, and "between" for two. But 1 Between the students in the class which is the best? 2 The U.N.O. insists on better
- Which one is correct, "in the USA" or "in USA"?USA is an abbreviation for United States of America, and the is used because the proper noun is a noun phrase whose main noun is the ordinary noun States. The definite article is also used in other country names (and their abbreviations) that are phrases made from ordinary nouns, such as the United Kingdom or the People's Republic of China.
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