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British and American Grammar

purple_cinamoroll
Hello redditors! I'm at uni and our professor asked us for material to research the differences between British and American grammar, so if you happen to have some material I could use, I would appreciate it.

3 comments

OneFisted_Owl•
You could be creating your own material right now if you could incite some discourse between some British and American commenters.
listenandunderstand•
Hello! Here is a video where a british guy and an american have a competition! They try to guess the slang of the other person's region. It could possibly be helpful [https://youtu.be/U4pA3ZxUOQs?si=CmcwO1HnCuDU9TDf](https://youtu.be/U4pA3ZxUOQs?si=CmcwO1HnCuDU9TDf)
Giraffe6000•
They're practically the same, the vocabulary can be different from time to time, as can pronunciation. But other than that there's not much difference really. I don't know what your professor wants here unless they want you to come to the obvious conclusion that they're the same. They are both English after all. Google says there are differences but I A: don't buy some of them, I'm a Brit and I don't go around saying 'Shall' all the time, and B: the ones that I do believe are more vocabulary than grammar, like Brits saying got instead of gotten. I will say that in written form there are punctuation differences like Americans generally using "double quotation marks" while Brits use 'single quotation marks', Americans putting full stops (periods) "inside quotes for some reason." While Brits put them 'outside like sane people'. Whether that counts as grammar or not I don't know.