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Lecture №15. Grammatical Differences between American and British English.
Outline:

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   Spelling differences AE and DE
   
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   Pronunciation
   
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   Stress
   

The grammatical systems of languages are more or less stable. Still, close contacts with some other languages often bring about certain simplifications of grammar, which is exactly the case with American English. In the morphological system there are a number of verbs usually treated as regular in American English and as irregular in British English, e.g.:

The following verbs have retained the archaic forms of the past participle in both AE and BE: proven, written, ridden, risen, driven, frozen, spoken, stolen, woven, broken, forgotten, bitten, hidden, eaten, chosen, given, shaken, taken, fallen, swollen, and others. Only AE retained –en in gotten.
While speaking about verb forms, it is necessary to mention the preference of the auxiliary verbs will and would in AE to shall and should in BE: I shan’t go. We shall not leave. I won’t go. We will not leave. The Americans sometimes use past simple where the British use the present perfect: I just wrote vs. I have just written.
Crystal mentions differences of word order in the noun phrases: Hudson River (AE) vs. River Thames (BE), a half hour (AE) vs. half an hour (BE). There is a difference in the use of articles as well: in the future (AE) vs. in future (BE), in the hospital (AE) vs. in hospital (BE), and others (p.311).
One of the most striking grammatical differences is the usage of prepositions. The British live in a street and American live on a street. The English would say, “The university was named after him,” or “He is nervous of doing something,” while the Americans would say, “The university was named for him,” or “He is nervous about doing something.” Here are some more examples: