Friday, July 24, 2015

BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISHES

These two leading varieties of English differ in four ways, namely: Grammar, Vocabulary, spelling and pronounciation.
Each of these will be discussed.
GRAMMER: the following are some of the grammatical differences;

1.       British English favours the present perfect tense while American English prefers the simple past tense: What have you eaten? I’ve eaten rice (BrE) What did you eat? I ate rice (AmE)

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