Standard English Non-standard English

Grammatically correct and Both are Restricted use and does not follow
acceptable correct ways to the rules of standard English
speak English
Users are people carrying wider Supposedly to be avoided always
Both are used
affairs of the world.
in
conversations Language of uneducated
Associated with Education

Formal English Informal English

Variety of limited use in writing Does not Variety of restricted use

than in speaking contain slang
More spoken than written
or improper
Uses Traditional standard of
grammar Conversational in tone and it uses
correctness
smaller vocabulary than formal
Both are
Literary English English and generally shorter
varieties of
sentences
standard
English Casual English

General English Neutral English

Unlimited use to both speech and Both can use Most appropriate for technical
writing used by educated people in neutral English writings
their private and public affairs
Both are We use the neutral language register
varieties of with non-emotional topics and
standard information
English
Neutral writing is not necessarily
formal or informal

A neutral register to deliver facts