fill in and fill out ?

[lyfen]

Hello,
Is there the different between " to FILL IN and to FILL out an application ? "

thanks in advance.

 

[emsr2d2]

Hello,
Is there the different between "to FILL IN and to FILL out an application"?

Thanks in advance.

No. In BrE, we usually use "fill in".

Note that you don't put a space before a question mark, nor before or after quotation marks.

 

[lyfen]

Hi,
So you mean : to fill out is used in american english ? as sometimes i heard people said : to fill out.

thanks

 

[emsr2d2]

Hi,
So do you mean "to fill out" is used in American English? [STRIKE]as[/STRIKE] Sometimes I hear[STRIKE]d[/STRIKE] people [STRIKE]said[/STRIKE] say "to fill out".

Thanks.

They are both correct but "to fill in" is more usual in BrE. I'm sure someone from the USA will be able to tell us whether they are both used in AmE.

As I said in my first post, we don't put a space before a question mark (you repeated the error in this post).
Also, it's very important to begin every new sentence with a capital letter, to always capitalise the word "I" and to use capital letters at the beginnig of proper nouns (here, languages).

 

[lyfen]

Thank you for the explanation and sorry for i always forget the rule of writing .;-)

 

[emsr2d2]

Thank you for the explanation and sorry for I always forget the rules of writing.;-)

PLEASE capitalise the word "I". It is a little ironic that in a post where you apologise for forgetting certain things, you make exactly the same error!

I should perhaps have been clearer - it is not only a question mark we don't put a space before. Any punctuation mark at the end of a sentence (full stop, question mark, exclamation mark) goes directly after the last word of the sentence.

 

[lyfen]

;-) oh! sorry and thanks to your correction.

 

[emsr2d2]

;-) Oh! Sorry and thanks [STRIKE]to[/STRIKE] for your correction.

Let's make this the last time I write this. Start every new sentence with a capital letter please! :shock:

 

[SoothingDave]

They would be interchangeable to me in meaning, but I would tend to use "fill out." If I handed you something I would say "Fill this out while you are waiting for the doctor." However, if you left something blank, I'd probably say "you need to fill this in."

 

[jahildebrandt]

Not a teacher.

They would be interchangeable to me in meaning, but I would tend to use "fill out." If I handed you something I would say "Fill this out while you are waiting for the doctor." However, if you left something blank, I'd probably say "you need to fill this in."

Agreed. If I gave someone a form, I'd say, "Please fill out the form." If it were a scantron test, I'd say "Fill in the form/bubbles." If it were short answer, I may say, "Fill in the blank/s."

To me, fill in implies a correct/expected set of answers. Fill out seems more variable to me.

If you're using AmE, perhaps thinking "fill out [completely]" will help distinguish the two, but they're both extremely close semantically.

 

[lyfen]

Hello,
I just understand that both of them are the same meaning, right? ;-)
thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

Hello,
I just understand that both of them are the same meaning, right? ;-)
thanks.

We are now on page 2 of responses to your post. You have been given a lot of information by several people. Most of them have said that they are extremely similar in meaning, but you have also been given examples of where people would feel they would be used differently.

It is a little simplistic, therefore, for you to say "I just understand that both of them are the same meaning, right?"

If that were the case, you would have received two or three instant replies saying "Yes, they're the same". Read all the replies again carefully and see if you can spot the little differences.

 

[lyfen]

Hello,
I just understand that they are both almost the same meaning but I dont know what's the nuance between them.:-(

 

[5jj]

I just understand that they are both almost the same meaning but I dont know what's the nuance between them.

Then you are just going to have to read through the posts more carefully. People have spent time preparing careful responses to your questions. I don't think anybody could make it much clearer.

emsr2d2's last post sums it up well: You have been given a lot of information by several people. Most of them have said that they are extremely similar in meaning, but you have also been given examples of where people would feel they would be used differently.

Given that most people have agreed that they are very similar in meaning, just pick one and use it all the time.

 

[lyfen]

OK, thanks.