british english vs american english exercise pdf

... kinds of English Trang 2Soda PopSoft Drink Trang 3British AmericanTrang 4American Trang 5American Trang 6American Trang 7American Trang 8American Trang 9American Trang 10American Trang 11American ... 21American Trang 22Money American Trang 23(Gasoline) American Trang 24American Trang 25Toilet American Trang 26American Trang 27American Trang 28American Trang 29American Trang 30Pack of American ... Trang 12American Trang 13American Trang 14American Trang 15American Trang 16American Trang 17Fairy Floss/ Candy Floss Cotton Candy American Trang 18American Trang 19American Trang 20American

Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2016, 06:09

... Truck British Boot American Trunk British Football American Soccer British Spanner American Wrench British American Pharmacy Drug Store British Allowance American Pocket Money British Petrol American ... (Gasoline) British Bonnet American Hood British Toilet Loo/ WC American Bathroom British Rubber American Eraser British Flat American Apartment British Mate American Friend British Holiday American ... kinds of English Soda Soft Drink Pop Fizzy Drink British Trousers American Pants British Lift American Elevator British American Autumn Fall British American Biscuits Cookies British Lorry American

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2016, 14:56

... Trang 1AMERICAN ENGLISH VS BRITISH ENGLISH PHAN, THE HUNG, Ph.D. Applied linguistics & Linguistics Trang 2Social Varieties of the English Language • Standard English • Standard English ... Trang 9Hispanic American English• A social and ethnic variety Hispanics (people of Central American Spanish descent • Hispanic American English is unique among the major varieties of English in being ... that pharmacist is now replacing chemist in some British English dialects Trang 17Features of American English and differences with British English • Phonology : Differences in vowel and consonant

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2022, 18:11

... material associated with what Americans call stocking caps. jemmy, n. jimmy British burglars use jemmies; their American colleagues use jimmies. Jemmy is also used as the British name for a dish made ... machine... operator The British also use the term machine-minder where Americans would say machine operator mad on Inf crazy about Inf Americans also say mad about and the British also say crazy ... register luggage, Americans check baggage On a British train, bags go into the luggage van; on an American train, into the baggage car Luke’s Little Summer Inf Indian summer Inf Other British names:

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... out 347 Trang 20stick up puzzleSlang British robbers, as well as American, stick up their victims But a second British slang meaning has its approximate American equivalent in the verb to stick, ... adj incumbent In discussing American presidential elections, British television commentators and newspaper columnists invariably refer to the ‘sitting president.’ Americans call the president ... also pogged. The British and American usages are identical in shipboard terminology, but in Britain the term applies equally to railroad train crew members Usage is regional and the American term

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... differeces between American English and British English which are the two variants that are taught in most English program In general, differences between American English and British English have ... -ogue in English and -og in American English Trang 19-0g Vs -ogue => Americanisms have a tendency to make the spelling easier - Many nouns that in American English end in —or, in British English ... Viet Nam, where English is used as a foreign language, many English centers are mushrooming and they teach many variants of English: British English, American English, or Australian English If a

Ngày tải lên: 25/11/2014, 00:34

... Trang 1British English American Englishaccommodation accommodations action replay instant replay agony aunt advice ... second floor fish finger fish stick fitted carpet wall-to-wall carpeting full board (in hotels) American plan Trang 5full stop (punctuation) periodgearing (finance) leverage goods train freight

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2015, 22:31

... 22/35 British American English English football soccer 23/35 British American English English trousers pants 24/35 British American English English jumper sweater 25/35 British American English English ... 26/35 British American English English wash basin sink 27/35 British American English English tap faucet 28/35 British American English English wardrobe closet 29/35 British American English English ... British American English English film movie 1/35 British American English English cinema movie theater 2/35 British American English English petrol station gas station 3/35 British American English

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2016, 10:08

... between American and British English, I excluded from thelist those PVs with Cramer’s Vs lower than 0.001 This resulted in a list of 30 PVs Twenty are significantly more common in American English:check ... concerning some specific PVs because of (1) usagedifferences between American and British English and/or (2) increaseduse in American English Knowledge of these differences is useful toEnglish language ... Verbs: American English Versus British English This study has uncovered the frequency information of 152 PVs,including the 100 from the Gardner and Davies list, the four from Biber most frequent PVs

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2022, 19:00

... with What the British won’t sit down under, the Americans won’t stand for The British use stand for as well. Trang 21site, v.t locateLarge-scale industry is sited in the Midlands Americans would ... however, has an exclusively British additional meaning: a ‘wide shallow basket.’ S.E See Standard English. sea, n beach Sea and seaside are used in Britain where Americans would usually say ... adj incumbent In discussing American presidential elections, British television commentators and newspaper columnists invariably refer to the ‘sitting president.’ Americans call the president

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... fermented and alcoholic Americans distinguish between cider (which the British call apple juice, as do many Americans) and hard cider, which is simply cider to the British See also scrump. ... a chance See misfield. Inf Rare The British term seems harsh beside the romantic American term Both countries use the unfeeling term illegitimate child The British sometimes use the term come-by-chance ... 14cheesy, adj Slang swankySlang In the sense of ‘stylish’ or ‘chic,’ the British and American meanings are directly opposite This British use is going out; some say that it is already obso-lete, but

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... horseback 103 Trang 7devilry, n black magicThe British say deviltry as well to refer to this diabolical art. (The e is long in British English, short in American.) Governmental decentraliza-tion ... synonymous with the American slang term cheesy which, however, in Britain can mean ‘swanky.’ dinner-jacket, n tuxedo Americans say dinner jacket too, but tuxedo is never used in British English Com-monly ... freely. To the British layman director means about the same thing in the context of busi-ness epithets as executive would mean to an American layman Directorships in British companies and American

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... See have enough on one’s plate. The British never use period for the dot at the end of a sentence, though they gen-erally understand this American usage Americans avoid stop except in dictating ... v.t bring As in, to fetch a price in an auction The British use make in the same way. fête, n fair (Pronounced fate.) An important part of British life Most organizations, as well as every village ... proportions, the British use swindle See also diddle; do; carve up; ramp; sell a pup; swizz; take down; cook. fiddling, adj petty; futile; contemptible Speaking of political candidates Americans and

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... use the term machine-minder where Americans would say machine operator. Inf Americans also say mad about and the British also say crazy about, but only the British say mad on to mean infatuated ... One word the British rarely use as the equivalent of mend or repair is fix, an Americanism. mental, adj crazy Inf An American will speak of a disturbed person as a mental case The British content ... I don’t believe a word of it, mind! The British do not use mind in the sense of obey British and American parents mind (look after) their children American children mind (or should mind, i.e.,

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... maiden over. 2 smock The British use overall, or boiler suit, in the sense of a ‘one-piece work garment’ and also to describe what Americans would call a smock. The British sometimes use the ... parting, n part Both British and Americans part their hair, but the result is known as a parting in Britain and a part in America See also turning for turn See Appendix I.A.3. When Americans go to ... transitively as well, meaning to ‘make (some-one) lose his balance.’ The usual American meaning is ‘outweigh.’ The universal British term for having an overdrawn bank account This may hap-pen by prior

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... curious relationship between the British uses of agree and accept, which are more or less the reverse of the American uses, since agree is used in Britain where an American would normally say accept ... in the phrase, peculiar to American ears, all-in wrestling in which the gladiators are permitted to just about anything except resort to weapons Common to British and American vocabularies is the ... the American sense is civilities in Britain.) The American term conveniences is also used and is found in the abbreviated phrase, all mod cons, which stands for all modern conveniences Another British

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... instance, a certain number of essays must be written in an English composition class or a specific number of books must be read in an American Novel course  They know all save what is in your ... OPEN UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ENGLSH & MODERN LANGUAGES DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Chapter 3: Cohesion in English discourse FULL NAME : NGUYỄN THANH THẢO CLASS : KT4A Tháng 12 năm 2012 I/ Grammatical cohesion ... its origin  It provides a republican organization, proscribes under the name of prerogative the exercise of all powers undefined by the laws; places on this basis the whole system of our laws;

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:21

... Course 30 English – Special Topics 30 Library / Information Science 30 i ENGLISH Developmental English New Titles DEVELOPMENTAL ENGLISH 2012 Author ... Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards Comprehension Practice Exercises Determining the Topic Exercises, Part One Determining the Topic Exercises, Part Two Reading Selections: 3-1: Is There a Better ... Summary: Developing Chapter Review Cards Comprehension Practice Exercises Stated Main Idea Exercises, Part One Stated Main Idea Exercises, Part Two Reading Selections: 4-1: Good Boss? Bad Boss?

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20

... Trang 1Grain and Chaff from an English ManorThe Project Gutenberg EBook of Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur H Savory This eBook is for the use of ... www.gutenberg.net Title: Grain and Chaff from an English Manor Author: Arthur H Savory Release Date: August 21, 2004 [EBook #13239] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START ... were all greys, useful workers, butwanting the spirit and stamina of the English horse; and they would always wait for the Englishman to start aheavy standing load before throwing their weight into

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... Analyzer for English Sentences by Robert F Simmons* and John F Burger, System Development Corporation, Santa Monica, California A system for semantic analysis of a wide range of English sentence ... is to accept English statements and questions, perform syn- tactic and semantic analyses, answer questions, para- phrase statements and/or generate statements and ques- tions in English), there ... shown a significant potential for answering questions phrased in nontrivial subsets of natural English The indication from these recent lines * Now at the Department of Computer Sciences, Univer-

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20