Name : Zulfi Muhamad Barqi Class : II.R.

A reg Pronouncation Difference between American English with british english British English and American English grammar are mostly in agreement; there are however some interesting variations. For example there are differences in certain verb forms. In AE the past tense of fit is fit; in BE it is fitted. Americans say I've gotten to know her well; Britons I've got to know her well. In BE the present perfect tense is used for situations in which AE would typically use the past simple. For example using the words just or already, Britons would be more likely to say: I've just seen him or I've already done it whereas in AE it would be common to hear I just saw him or I already did it. As another example, Americans are much more likely to be technically correct in the agreement of collective noun and verb form than Britons. So in standard AE it would be: The team is playing well this season whereas in BE it is common and acceptable to say The team are playing well. Similar differences can be seen in the use of words like government, committee etc.: The government is .. (AE), The government are .. (BE) Americans and Britons agree in most cases on where a word in stressed. For example, everyone says pencil and relax, cinema and consider, but the following words from the table are stressed differently in the two dialects:

ballet - BE : ballet - AE address - BE : address * - AE garage - BE : garage - AE advertisement - BE : advertisement - AE

The differences in pronunciation of the other words lie in the vowel sounds, not in differentlystressed syllables. They are therefore more difficult to illustrate in writing without recourse to

phonetic script, which few people know. Their proununciations are illustrated therefore by reference to common words with the same sound

vase: vars as in cars (BE) : vace as in face (AE) route: root as in shoot (BE) : rout * as in shout (AE) buoy: boy as in toy (BE) : booey as in the French name Louis (AE) ate: et as in let (BE) : ate as in late (AE) tomato: tomarto (BE) : tomayto * (AE) leisure as in pleasure (BE) : leesure (lee as in she) (AE) Words ending in -our

British English words ending in -our usually end in -or in American English:

British colour flavour humour labour neighbour

US color flavor humor labor neighbor

Words ending in -ize or -ise

Verbs in British English that can be spelled with either -ize or -ise at the end are always spelled with -ize at the end in American English:

British apologize or apologise organize or organise

US apologize

organize