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2. American and British English grammatical differences

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   The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns (for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team). For instance, BrE: SuperHeavy is a band that shouldn't work or First Aid Kit are a band full of contradictions; [6] [7] AmE: The Clash is a well-known band.

3. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language - Wikipedia

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   The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ( CamGEL[ n 1]) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and has been cited more than 8,000 times.

4. Practical English Usage - Wikipedia

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   Practical English Usage. Practical English Usage is a standard reference book aimed at foreign learners of English and their teachers, written by Michael Swan . Published by Oxford University Press, it has sold over 2 million copies since the first edition was published in 1980. [1] A new, and greatly extended second edition was published in 1995.

5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language.This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts.. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to ...

6. The Elements of Style - Wikipedia

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   The Elements of Style (also called Strunk & White) is a style guide for formal grammar used in American English writing. The first publishing was written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition," "a few matters of form," a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused," and a ...

7. Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia

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   Chomsky referred to this difference in capacity as the language acquisition device, and suggested that linguists needed to determine both what that device is and what constraints it imposes on the range of possible human languages. The universal features that result from these constraints would constitute "universal grammar".

8. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   One of Kes's costumes with wig and ear prosthetics. Kes is a fictional character in the science fiction television show Star Trek: Voyager, played by Jennifer Lien. Kes joins the crew of the starship USS Voyager in the pilot episode, opening an aeroponics garden and working as a medical assistant. She is a member of a telepathic alien species ...

9. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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   British and other Commonwealth English use the ending -logue while American English commonly uses the ending -log for words like analog (ue), catalog (ue), dialog (ue), homolog (ue), etc., etymologically derived from Greek -λόγος -logos ("one who speaks (in a certain manner)").