http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aBritish+accent+tag%3aNegationsSearch results for 'tag:British accent tag:Negations' matching tags 'British accent' and 'Negations'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3256.36449)http://www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenAmericanBritish-English/wbjz/post.htm#39751Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:17:43 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:39751M. HusThere are differences in accent, grammar and words. British accent needs no explanation if you've ever heard it. It is SO different from American. <br /> <br />The main grammatical difference is Perfect Tenses. <br /> <br />The Americans would say I just had a breakfast and Did you ever go to Spain. The British would stick to I've just had a breakfast and Have you ever been to Spain. There are some minor differences in preposition use and strucure of sentences as well, but are really not important. <br /> <br />There are lists of words used differently in USA and UK. Some are just spelt differently, others have different meaning (rubber would be understood as an eraser in USA but as condom in UK). Go Google for details. <br /> <br />By the way, the double negation is ungrammatical in English, but not necessarily in other languages. In my native Slovenian, we don't just use the double negation but even the tripple and more. (Nihce nikoli nicesar ne ve -- English word by word translation would be: Nobody never not knows nothing.<img src="/emoticons/emotion-5.gif" alt="Wink [;)]" />