? FORMAL AND INFORMAL ENGLISH WORDS.
As an English student or learner, you need to know formal and informal English words. Most of the English learners do not differentiate between the formal words and informal words. They do not know where they should use formal words appropriately and where they should not use it, so as informal words usage is concerned.
The most important piece of advice for an English learner is to get lots of input. But not all input is the same. There are, roughly speaking , two basic types of English input: formal and informal.
FORMAL ENGLISH is used in “serious” texts and situations — for example, in official documents, books, news reports, articles, business letters or official speeches.
INFORMAL ENGLISH is used in everyday conversations and in personal letters.
Here are few examples of informal and formal English words:
INFORMAL FORMAL
Ask >>——-<< Enquire
Ask for >>——-<< Request Book >>——-<< Reserve Check >>——-<< Verify Get >>——-<< Receive Help >>——-<< Assist Need >>——-<< Request Say sorry >>——-<< Apologise Start/ Begin >>——-<< Commence End >>——-<< Terminate/ Finish Try >>——-<< Endeavour Deal with >>——-<< Handle Tell >>——-<< Inform Wait for >>——-<< Await Fight >>——-<< Combat Use/Eat >>——-<< Consume Go >>——-<< Depart Tough >>——-<< Difficult Small >>——-<< Diminutive Explain >>——-<< Disclose Set out >>——-<< Display Throw out >>——-<< Eject Old >>——-<< Elderly Say >>——-<< Express Afraid >>——-<< Fearful In the end >>——-<< Finally Lucky >>——-<< Fortunate But >>——-<< However Wrong >>——-<< Incorrect Go up >>——-<< Increase Cheap >>——-<< Inexpensive At first >>——-<< Initially Mad >>——-<< Insane Bright/smart >>——-<< Intelligent Big/Large >>——-<< Enormous Right >>——-<< Correct A bit >>——-<< A little Away >>——-<< Absent Speed up >>——-<< Accelerate Okay, ok >>——-<< Acceptable Help >>——-<< Aid/ Assist Let >>——-<< Allow Call off >>——-<< Cancel Friendly >>——-<< Amiable Expect >>——-<< Anticipate Seem >>——-<< Appear Climb >>——-<< Ascend Beat up >>——-<< Assault Fall out >>——-<< Quarrel Eager >>——-<< Avid Stop >>——-<< Cease Dare >>——-<< Challenge Kids >>——-<< Children Settle for >>——-<< Choose Round >>——-<< Circular Pick up >>——-<< Collect Think of >>——-<< Conceive Link up >>——-<< Connect Think about >>——-<< Consider Build >>——-<< Construct Refer to >>——-<< Consult Hurt >>——-<< Damage, harm Go down >>——-<< Decrease Want/ hope >>——-<< Desire Lack >>——-<< Deficiency Show >>——-<< Demonstrate Brave >>——-<< Courageous Pin down >>——-<< Determine Put/ set down >>——-<< Deposit Throw away >>——-<< Discard Make out >>——-<< Discern Talk about >>——-<< Discuss/consider Give out >>——-<< Distribute Give >>——-<< Donate Remove >>——-<< Eliminate Imagine >>——-<< Envisage Break out >>——-<< Erupt Get out >>——-<< Escape Avoid >>——-<< Evade Go through >>——-<< Examine Make up >>——-<< Fabricate Test >>——-<< Experiment Ease >>——-<< Facilitate Come after >>——-<< Follow Sick >>——-<< Ill Ask out >>——-<< Invite Go away >>——-<< Leave/ depart At once >>——-<< Immediately Free >>——-<< Liberate Deal with >>——-<< Manage Bad >>——-<< Negative Look into >>——-<< Investigate Chance >>——-<< Opportunity See >>——-<< Perceive Happy >>——-<< Pleased Give up >>——-<< Quit Older >>——-<< Senior Use >>——-<< Utilize Enough >>——-<< Sufficient End >>——-<< Terminate Empty >>——-<< Vacant Rich >>——-<< Wealthy Mend >>——-<< Repair