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    Content American English…………………………………………………2 Lexical difference…………………………………………………4 Grammatical difference…………………………………………..6 Bibliography……………………………………………….8 Grammatical difference between British and American English. American English. In the early part of the seventeenth century English settlers began to bring their language to America‚ and another series of changes began to take place. The settlers borrowed words from Indian languages for

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    We the American colonists are not rebels. All the colonists wanted to do was have religious freedom so they left Britain to come to the Americas to start their colonies and have their own governments and have their own religions. They also got tired of the king taxing them without representation and saying to allow that British soldiers are to housed and taken care of by the colonists and that really set the colonists through the roof having to take care of someone they didn’t even know. We the

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    During the American Revolution‚ colonists had many utopian ideals of freedom‚ representation‚ and independence. They fought for them through the Revolutionary War and Thomas Paine emphasised them in his book Common Sense. The british colonists kept those principles at heart when writing the Declaration of Independence and continued pursue them even until the mid 1800s with the rise of cotton in the Mississippi Valley. When the soil in the southern states proved fertile‚ King Cotton became the new

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    prototype of the British colonist”(Sussman‚ p.248). In this essay I will examine Defoe’s novel taking into consideration Joyce’s comments. Crusoe represents the typical English colonist in the 18th century. For example‚ he is very interested in colonising the island‚ economics‚ capitalism and is condescending towards other people’s faiths.. It is these pieces of information that I have on Robinson Crusoe that I believe made Joyce refer to him as a “true prototype of the British colonist”. If

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    The decision of the British colonies to declare their Independence from Britain was long in the making and began to escalate directly after the end of the French and Indian War. After signing the Treaty of Paris‚ Britain was still facing the costly debt of the war and parliament made the decision that the colonists should help pay in the form of a number of taxes. This left the colonists feeling cheated as they failed to hold a single representative seat in Parliament and had no outlet to voice their

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    The colonists were completely justified in waging war against the British. It was their time to break away and to work for their own individual independence. They only really had one choice that would have worked and that choice was to fight a war against the British. Some of the justifications in wanting to fight this war can be found in documents such as Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and The Declaration of Independence and taxes such as the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

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    A Column of British Soldiers marched out on the morning of April 19‚ 1775 toward the town of Lexington‚ Massachusetts. A small band of seventy-seven colonial militiamen stood their way. The shot heard around the world occurred in this time period as the outnumbered Americans retreated‚ thus starting the American War of Independence. Six years later‚ on October 19‚ 1781‚ Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown‚ Virginia to the joint forces of General George Washington and French General

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    Comparison between the American and the British Judicial Power A project presented to Misses Alexa Hocheime on the 27th of Novembre 2012 Outline Interview with Her Majesty the Queen… I- Introduction II- Body 1- Informative part Description: General overview on the American and British judicial powers 1-1 British judicial power 1-2 American judicial power 2- Analytic part Differences between the two

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    Punctuation differences between American and British English There are many differences between American and British English as regards to spelling in general‚ but differences in punctuation are minimal. Actually‚ there isn’t an official book of rules in America about spelling: the American style was established for typographical reasons‚ a historical legacy from the use of the handset printing press. It is used by most American newspapers‚ publishing houses and style guides in the United States

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    CONTENTS Introduction 3 1. British English and American English pronunciation 7 2. British English and American English vocabulary 10 3. British English and American English grammar 13 Conclusions 16 References 17 Introduction The object of this work is to study‚ analyse‚ and most importantly compare differences between two major branches of English language: American English (also called General American) and British English (also called UK English or

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