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Morphological and Phonetic Differences. In spoken language contracted forms are used, though we may come across them in the written variety to show the territorial or social dialects and colloquialisms: he instead of him, don’t instead of doesn’t, them instead of this/that/these, etc.

E.g. She used to play tennis with he and Mrs.Torrance.

The striking difference between the two varieties lies in the vocabulary used:

Typically colloquial	Typically bookish
I take it To hang out Lass	I understand it To go around Girl, etc.

In spoken language words are often intensified by interjections, curse words, adjectives which have lost their primary meaning, words of hesitation, etc.

E.g. Well, she was awfully nice. I’m busy, you know.
Syntactic Peculiarities of the Spoken Variety. They are not so strong as lexical ones; and reveal the situational character of communication.

E.g. “Playing, children?” /ellipsis/; “She fell ill?” /word order/;

“If you do it again I’ll –“ /unfinished sentence/

“Amanda she is a nice girl.” /the use of two subjects/ etc.