English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
DIFFERENCES IN GRAMMAR
- In British English, collective nouns are preferably treated as plural while American English considers them singular.
The band are playing now (Br. Eng.).
The band is playing now (Am. Eng.). - British English uses “got” as the past and past participle forms of “get” while American English sticks to “gotten” which British long deopped.
She’s got to the end of it (Br. Eng.).
She’s gotten to the end of it (Am. Eng.). - British English would preferably use the auxiliaries “has, have, had” before another verb while American English uses them alone as anomalous verbs:
She has got a big factory on the island (Br. Eng.).
She has a big factory on the island (Am. Eng.).
GAB
