Friday, July 24, 2015

BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISHES - Still on grammar:

BrE prefers the use of ‘got’ as the past tense and past participle of ‘get’ while the form ‘gotten’ is very common in AmE
1.       I’ve got a job (BrE); I’ve gotten a job (AmE)
2.       BrE  favours the irregular form of lexical verbs(learn-learnt, dream-dreamt) while AmE uses mainly the regular form(learn-learned, dream-dreamed)

3.       Prepositions: British athletes play in a team; American athletes play on a team

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