4.4 British English vs. American English2外国文学名著导读.pdf

Chapter Four 4.4 British English vs. American English Part 2 Vocabulary Differences British American • autumn • fall • film • movie • underground, tube • subway • football • soccer • trousers • pants • flat • apartment • petrol • gas • car park • parking lot • biscuits • cookies • torch • flashlight Lexical-grammar Differences (1) Some verbs have different past tense and past participle forms; (2) Perfect aspect; (3) Have: American English tends to use do-support; (4) Modal auxiliaries; (5) Tag questions; BrE: grammatical correspondences. AmE : non-grammatical type. (6) Adjectives are used for adverbs in AmE; (7) Notional concord. Differences in Spelling (1) Simplification in spelling (2) Regularisation (3) Reflection of pronunciation “-ise, -se” vs. “-ize, -ze” (4) Double “l” (for stressed syllable) in AmE Differences in Punctuations (1) Quotation marks (2) Dates (3) Dot: BrE uses a dot, whereas AmE uses a common to indicate time. 有缘学习更多+谓ygd3076考证资料