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1 Use of present perfect tense and simple past tense Speakers of American English generally use the present perfect tense have has past participle far less than speakers of British English In spoken American English it is very common to use the simple past tense as an alternative in situations...

Sorry this will probably be a really long post My mission To dispell false notions about American English First we do NOT say drug as the past tense of drag It s dragged There are only three kinds of Americans who would say this Young children who have not yet mastered the grammatical nuances of...

If you need a detailed description for American English here s something I came across in some old notes of mine It s got some exercises at the end too The phonetic transcriptions aren t really anything standard but I think you can figure them out Past tense of Regular Verbs Phonetic...

The verb get came from the Old North geta and the verb inflected like geta gat getten The past participle getten or gotten a new variant of getten generated by vowel shift had been used down to the 16th century However during the 17th century the past tense form got which was originally gat was...

1 2 3 Your formulation is fine It depends on the student s level of course I wouldn t burden a beginner with the fine points of tense usage in dependent clauses Your formulation does leave out however the parallel formulation for the past tenses including the conditional with would instead of...

Just with Simple Past tense is preferred in American English while British and StandardEnglish prefer Present Perfect with just

But the word practise only exists in British English If the student is learning American English only practice will do for both noun and verb My American Heritage Dictionary does not even have an entry for practise

Hi Miriam Thanks so much for your reply Of course I m still interested 1 Sometimes when examples are given certain forms begin to sound more acceptable Strangely enough only your example with wish still seems weird to me The other two don t really sound that formal to me I can imagine reading...

You are welcome Pastel I think you got the meaning of my post yes But there s a strange mix of grammatical terminology in your post Have I mentioned lately that you sometimes drive me crazy L Let s take the sentence If he ate more he would gain weight We agree that it is a conditional sentence...

nq 1 This begin quote For after the haul CHARLIE Hope I get to fire it up If Steve s Italians are worries me just along for the ride CHARLIE Ain t you sweet end quote What in there isn t American English nq It doesn t sound like American English Shitter is a rare term in AmE as is prep Use of...