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... prefer houses to flats. d With some words, the noun has the suffix man He's English. /He's an Englishman. Englishmen are reserved. Also: Welsh/a Welshman, Irish/an Irishman, French/a Frenchman, ... adjective with the or people. The English are /English people are reserved. NOTE a It is less usual to use woman as a suffix, but we can use an adjective + woman. The English woman works at the university. b ... Chinese Czech Republic Czech a Czech (the) Czechs Denmark Danish a Dane (the) Danes England - English an Englishman the English Europe European a European Europeans Finland Finnish a Finn (the) Finns France...

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... 40 American English 302 Summary The grammar of British English and American English is very similar. There are a few differences but not very ... spelling differences, such as GB colour, US color. The main differences between British and American English are in pronunciation and in some items of vocabulary. A good dictionary such as the Oxford ... Americans do not often use shall. GB: We will/shall contact you. US: We will contact you. 40 AMERICAN ENGLISH PAGE 392 The British use shall in offers, but Americans prefer should. Mainly GB: Shall...

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... travelling traveling kerb (edge of curb tyre (on a wheel) tire pavement) 40 AMERICAN ENGLISH PAGE 396 40 AMERICAN ENGLISH PAGE 394 7 Numbers The British use and between hundred and the rest of a ... US: That was real nice of her. It sure is raining. 3 Somewhere and someplace In informal American English everyplace, someplace and noplace can be used as well as everywhere, somewhere and nowhere. GB/US: ... meaning of through like this. GB/US: They will stay in London until the end of April. In British English we can also use inclusive. This is rather formal. Mainly GB: Monday to Friday inclusive US...

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... complement. subjunctive The subjunctive is the base form of a verb. We can use it in rather formal English in some contexts, e.g. I propose that the money be made available. ã 242 suffix The adverb ... capital letter and ends with a full stop (.) or question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!). sequence of tenses the use of the same tense in the main clause and sub clause, e.g. I'm going to Greece ... or 've. In the short form we use an apostrophe in place of part of the word. • 55(2) simple tenses the present simple or past simple tense without an auxiliary, e.g. it opens, it opened singular...

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... may find that other grammars recognise different word classes from the ones listed here. They may also define the boundaries between the classes in different ways. In some grammars, for instance, ... adjectival or verbal: The bomb was detonated ~*The bomb was very detonated This document is hand-written ~*This document is very hand-written My house was built in only twelve weeks ~*My house ... modem, multimedia 5 We began by grouping words more or less on the basis of our instincts about English. We somehow "feel" that brother and car belong to the same class, and that brother...

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... present 241 (3a) US 303(6) past subjunctive 242(3) past tense in indirect speech 268 sequence of tenses 241 past simple 65 paths 296(3) pay: uncountable noun 144 (4b) pay (verb) and pay for 233(1) ... of noun phrase 143(2d) one and ones 188(5) pronouns and Possessives 187 uses of so 43 (6) verb tenses and aspects 69 who, whom, which and that 273(6) owe passive 108(3) state verb 62(1) with...

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