In some contexts either form may be used without perceptible difference of meaning; the following are examples in which only one of them can now be used: ‘The ratchet-wheel can move only forwards’; ‘the right side of the paper has the maker's name reading forwards’; ‘if you move at all it must be forwards’; ‘my companion has gone ...

Forwards is a variant spelling of the adverb (not the adjective) forward. (e.g., We moved forward/forwards in the forward [not forwards] compartment.) Towards is a variant spelling of toward. Use whichever sounds better to you, but be consistent. However, in the case of look forward to, this is an phrasal verb. It is never written with forwards:

In some contexts either form may be used without perceptible difference of meaning; the following are examples in which only one of them can now be used: ‘The ratchet-wheel can move only forwards’; ‘the right side of the paper has the maker's name reading forwards’; ‘if you move at all it must be forwards’; ‘my companion has gone ...

In British English (and possibly others), backward and forward are adjectives, and backwards/forwards are adverbs. A person may be backward 1 or forward; a car may be forward of a "Stop" line; one might move something forward (that is, to a position which is forward of its current position). However, when describing that movement itself, it's ...

2020年6月23日 · For me there is a distinction between the usage of "forward" and "forwards". Note that some people won't perceive (or care about) this distinction. Forward is a direction. Forwards is a mode of travel. The general marched the troops forward, i.e. in the direction of the enemy. The troops always march forwards.

Learn the difference between "I look forward to" and "I'm looking forward to" in English.

In more and more podcasts and presentations I hear sentences such as this one: That is our strategy going forward. What meaning does going forward add to the sentence? That is, how is it differ...

2017年1月10日 · It is a phonetic palindrome, as defined in this Wikipedia article:. a portion of sound or phrase of speech that is identical or roughly identical when reversed.

2015年3月13日 · Palindromes are words, sentences, numbers that are the same forwards and backwards. Is there a term for words that are one word forwards but a different word backwards? For example, star backwards is rats, or god is dog.

Jonathan Reed's poem 'Lost Generation' is a pessimistic view of the future if read forwards. However, if you read it backwards linewise (not wordwise), it is still semantically meaningful, but the meaning is optimistic and almost completely opposite. Here are a few lines backwards and forwards to demonstrate: In the future