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It's not the Queen's English

From each set, pick the preferred choice for formal U.S. writing:

• The test facility for aeronautics is (different to, different from, different than ) that for space.
• We are continuing to move (forward, forwards ) with (modernisation, modernization ).
• NASA (has, have ) decided to continue funding the International Space Station.
• This version of MS Word is (different to, different from, different than ) that used on my Unix station.
• Some of the accounting rules for government agencies are different from (contractors, those for contractors ).
• We are moving (toward, towards ) an all-electric system.

For an explanation of It's not the Queen's English, see Quirks of English.

For an explanation of different to, different from, and different than, see the Word of the Week .